16 ideas
21697 | The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand [Quine] |
21698 | All relations, apart from ancestrals, can be reduced to simpler logic [Quine] |
21696 | Nominalism rejects both attributes and classes (where extensionalism accepts the classes) [Quine] |
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] |
22384 | A 'double effect' is a foreseen but not desired side-effect, which may be forgivable [Foot] |
22385 | The doctrine of double effect can excuse an outcome because it wasn't directly intended [Foot] |
22386 | Double effect says foreseeing you will kill someone is not the same as intending it [Foot] |
22387 | Without double effect, bad men can make us do evil by threatening something worse [Foot] |
22388 | Double effect seems to rely on a distinction between what we do and what we allow [Foot] |
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] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
22383 | Abortion is puzzling because we do and don't want the unborn child to have rights [Foot] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |