17 ideas
6253 | Reason is our power of finding out true propositions [Hutcheson] |
13412 | Obtaining numbers by abstraction is impossible - there are too many; only a rule could give them, in order [Benacerraf] |
13413 | We must explain how we know so many numbers, and recognise ones we haven't met before [Benacerraf] |
13411 | If numbers are basically the cardinals (Frege-Russell view) you could know some numbers in isolation [Benacerraf] |
13415 | An adequate account of a number must relate it to its series [Benacerraf] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
6256 | Can't the moral sense make mistakes, as the other senses do? [Hutcheson] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
6252 | Happiness is a pleasant sensation, or continued state of such sensations [Hutcheson] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
6257 | You can't form moral rules without an end, which needs feelings and a moral sense [Hutcheson] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
6254 | We are asked to follow God's ends because he is our benefactor, but why must we do that? [Hutcheson] |
6255 | Why may God not have a superior moral sense very similar to ours? [Hutcheson] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |