18 ideas
6253 | Reason is our power of finding out true propositions [Hutcheson] |
10735 | Abstraction from objects won't reveal an operation's being performed 'so many times' [Geach] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
10732 | If concepts are just recognitional, then general judgements would be impossible [Geach] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
10731 | For abstractionists, concepts are capacities to recognise recurrent features of the world [Geach] |
10733 | The abstractionist cannot explain 'some' and 'not' [Geach] |
10734 | Only a judgement can distinguish 'striking' from 'being struck' [Geach] |
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] |