34 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] |
| 23438 | Full rationality must include morality [Foot] |
| 23437 | Practical reason is goodness in choosing actions [Foot] |
| 23436 | It is an odd Humean view to think a reason to act must always involve caring [Foot] |
| 23758 | Beauty is an attractive mystery, leaving nothing to be desired [Weil] |
| 23431 | Human defects are just like plant or animal defects [Foot] |
| 23433 | Humans need courage like a plant needs roots [Foot] |
| 23432 | Concepts such as function, welfare, flourishing and interests only apply to living things [Foot] |
| 23434 | There is no fact-value gap in 'owls should see in the dark' [Foot] |
| 21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
| 23439 | Principles are not ultimate, but arise from the necessities of human life [Foot] |
| 23760 | All we need are the unity of justice, truth and beauty [Weil] |
| 23435 | If you demonstrate the reason to act, there is no further question of 'why should I?' [Foot] |
| 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] |
| 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] |