32 ideas
23755 | Genius and love of truth are always accompanied by great humility [Weil] |
3978 | Associations are held to connect Ideas together in the way the world is connected together [Fodor] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
3976 | Intentional science needs objects with semantic and causal properties, and which obey laws [Fodor] |
3980 | Intentional states and processes may be causal relations among mental symbols [Fodor] |
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] |
3981 | Most psychological properties seem to be multiply realisable [Fodor] |
23756 | The mind is imprisoned and limited by language, restricting our awareness of wider thoughts [Weil] |
3975 | Folk psychology explains behaviour by reference to intentional states like belief and desire [Fodor] |
3982 | How could the extrinsic properties of thoughts supervene on their intrinsic properties? [Fodor] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
3977 | Laws are true generalisations which support counterfactuals and are confirmed by instances [Fodor] |
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] |