13 ideas
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] |
18228 | An end can't be an ultimate value just because it is useless! [Korsgaard] |
18225 | If we can't reason about value, we can reason about the unconditional source of value [Korsgaard] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
18224 | Goodness is given either by a psychological state, or the attribution of a property [Korsgaard] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
18233 | Contemplation is final because it is an activity which is not a process [Korsgaard] |
18226 | For Aristotle, contemplation consists purely of understanding [Korsgaard] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |
1863 | If the soul achieves well-being in another life, it doesn't follow that I do [Aquinas] |