38 ideas
23755 | Genius and love of truth are always accompanied by great humility [Weil] |
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] |
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] |
3926 | The human heart has a natural concern for public good [Hume] |
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] |
3929 | No moral theory is of any use if it doesn't serve the interests of the individual concerned [Hume] |
3925 | Personal Merit is the possession of useful or agreeable mental qualities [Hume] |
3922 | Justice only exists to support society [Hume] |
23560 | If we all naturally had everything we could ever desire, the virtue of justice would be irrelevant [Hume] |
3918 | Moral philosophy aims to show us our duty [Hume] |
3919 | Conclusions of reason do not affect our emotions or decisions to act [Hume] |
3928 | Virtue just requires careful calculation and a preference for the greater happiness [Hume] |
3923 | No one would cause pain to a complete stranger who happened to be passing [Hume] |
3924 | Nature makes private affections come first, because public concerns are spread too thinly [Hume] |
3921 | The safety of the people is the supreme law [Hume] |
3927 | Society prefers helpful lies to harmful truth [Hume] |
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] |
23753 | People absurdly claim an equal share of things which are essentially privileged [Weil] |
3920 | If you equalise possessions, people's talents will make them unequal again [Hume] |
23752 | Giving centrality to rights stifles all impulses of charity [Weil] |
23751 | Rights are asserted contentiously, and need the backing of force [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] |
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] |