42 ideas
23755 | Genius and love of truth are always accompanied by great humility [Weil] |
21122 | Liberal Nationalism says welfare states and democracy needed a shared sense of nationality [Shorten] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
23747 | What is sacred is not a person, but the whole physical human being [Weil] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
23756 | The mind is imprisoned and limited by language, restricting our awareness of wider thoughts [Weil] |
21136 | Utilitarians conflate acts and omissions; causing to drown and failing to save are the same [Shorten] |
23758 | Beauty is an attractive mystery, leaving nothing to be desired [Weil] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
23760 | All we need are the unity of justice, truth and beauty [Weil] |
23748 | The sacred in every human is their expectation of good rather than evil [Weil] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
23759 | Everything which originates in love is beautiful [Weil] |
23762 | Evil is transmitted by comforts and pleasures, but mostly by doing harm to people [Weil] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
21135 | There are eight different ways in which groups of people can be oppressed [Shorten, by PG] |
21118 | Constitutional Patriotism unites around political values (rather than national identity) [Shorten] |
21129 | Democracy is a method of selection, or it involves participation, or it concerns public discussion [Shorten] |
21130 | Some say democracy is intrinsically valuable, others that it delivers good outcomes [Shorten] |
21126 | Representative should be either obedient, or sensible, or typical [Shorten] |
21128 | There is 'mirror representation' when the institution statistically reflects the population [Shorten] |
21127 | In a changed situation a Mandated Representative can't keep promises and fight for constituents [Shorten] |
21117 | Liberal citizens have a moral requirement to respect freedom and equality [Shorten] |
21134 | Maybe the rational autonomous liberal individual is merely the result of domination [Shorten] |
21113 | Liberal equality concerns rights, and liberal freedom concerns choice of ends [Shorten] |
21121 | Liberal Nationalism encourages the promotion of nationalistic values [Shorten] |
21115 | Liberalism should not make assumptions such as the value of choosing your own life plan [Shorten] |
21114 | Liberals treat individuals as mutual strangers, rather than as social beings [Shorten] |
23750 | It is not more money which the wretched members of society need [Weil] |
23749 | The problem of the collective is not suppression of persons, but persons erasing themselves [Weil] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
21123 | Liberal Nationalism is more communitarian, and Constitutional Patriotism more cosmopolitan [Shorten] |
23753 | People absurdly claim an equal share of things which are essentially privileged [Weil] |
23751 | Rights are asserted contentiously, and need the backing of force [Weil] |
23752 | Giving centrality to rights stifles all impulses of charity [Weil] |
23757 | The spirit of justice needs the full attention of truth, and that attention is love [Weil] |
23761 | Justice (concerning harm) is distinct from rights (concerning inequality) [Weil] |
23764 | The only thing in society worse than crime is repressive justice [Weil] |
23763 | Punishment aims at the good for men who don't desire it [Weil] |
21124 | Religious toleration has been institutionalised by the separation of church and state [Shorten] |
23754 | The only choice is between supernatural good, or evil [Weil] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |