25 ideas
7426 | Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault] |
7423 | Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked [Foucault] |
7420 | When logos controls our desires, we have actually become the logos [Foucault] |
14329 | Some dispositional properties (such as mental ones) may have no categorical base [Price,HH] |
7424 | Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration [Foucault] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
9032 | Before we can abstract from an instance of violet, we must first recognise it [Price,HH] |
9035 | If judgement of a characteristic is possible, that part of abstraction must be complete [Price,HH] |
9034 | There may be degrees of abstraction which allow recognition by signs, without full concepts [Price,HH] |
9036 | There is pre-verbal sign-based abstraction, as when ice actually looks cold [Price,HH] |
9037 | Intelligent behaviour, even in animals, has something abstract about it [Price,HH] |
7422 | A subject is a form which can change, in (say) political or sexual situations [Foucault] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
9033 | Recognition must precede the acquisition of basic concepts, so it is the fundamental intellectual process [Price,HH] |
9030 | Abstractions can be interpreted dispositionally, as the ability to recognise or imagine an item [Price,HH] |
9029 | If ideas have to be images, then abstract ideas become a paradoxical problem [Price,HH] |
9031 | The basic concepts of conceptual cognition are acquired by direct abstraction from instances [Price,HH] |
7419 | Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
7425 | The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
7418 | The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed [Foucault] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |