15 ideas
9271 | Human knowledge may not produce well-being; the examined life may not be worth living [Gray] |
18170 | The Axiom of Reducibility is self-effacing: if true, it isn't needed [Quine] |
9275 | Knowledge does not need minds or nervous systems; it is found in all living things [Gray] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
9276 | The will hardly ever does anything; most of our life just happens to us [Gray] |
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] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
9278 | Nowadays we identify the free life with the good life [Gray] |
9280 | Over forty percent of the Earth's living tissue is human [Gray] |
9272 | Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning [Gray] |
9279 | What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it? [Gray] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |