13 ideas
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
14802 | Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
20949 | Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
7669 | We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
7668 | Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
14800 | The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce] |
14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |