24 ideas
| 6253 | Reason is our power of finding out true propositions [Hutcheson] |
| 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] |
| 23814 | Every human yearns for an unattainable transcendent good [Weil] |
| 6256 | Can't the moral sense make mistakes, as the other senses do? [Hutcheson] |
| 23824 | Where human needs are satisfied we find happiness, friendship and beauty [Weil] |
| 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] |
| 23815 | We cannot equally respect what is unequal, so equal respect needs a shared ground [Weil] |
| 6257 | You can't form moral rules without an end, which needs feelings and a moral sense [Hutcheson] |
| 23823 | Life needs risks to avoid sickly boredom [Weil] |
| 23822 | We all need to partipate in public tasks, and take some initiative [Weil] |
| 23817 | We need both equality (to attend to human needs) and hierarchy (as a scale of responsibilities) [Weil] |
| 21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
| 23819 | Deliberate public lying should be punished [Weil] |
| 23818 | We have liberty in the space between nature and accepted authority [Weil] |
| 23820 | People need personal and collective property, and a social class lacking property is shameful [Weil] |
| 23821 | Crime should be punished, to bring the perpetrator freely back to morality [Weil] |
| 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] |
| 23816 | Attention to a transcendent reality motivates a duty to foster the good of humanity [Weil] |
| 21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |