12 ideas
10558 | Abstract objects are actually constituted by the properties by which we conceive them [Zalta] |
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] |
10557 | Abstract objects are captured by second-order modal logic, plus 'encoding' formulas [Zalta] |
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] |
23829 | National leaders want to preserve necessary order - but always the existing order [Weil] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
23828 | National prestige consists of behaving as if you could beat the others in a war [Weil] |
23827 | Modern wars are fought in the name of empty words which are given capital letters [Weil] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |