15 ideas
20100 | Classical liberalism seeks freedom of opinion, of private life, of expression, and of property [Micklethwait/Wooldridge] |
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] |
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] |
20097 | The welfare state aims at freedom from want, and equality of opportunity [Micklethwait/Wooldridge] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
20099 | For communists history is driven by the proletariat [Micklethwait/Wooldridge] |
20098 | Fans of economic freedom claim that capitalism is self-correcting [Micklethwait/Wooldridge] |
23828 | National prestige consists of behaving as if you could beat the others in a war [Weil] |
20096 | Roman law entrenched property rights [Micklethwait/Wooldridge] |
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] |