28 ideas
23531 | Philosophers should interpret the world, by expressing its possibilities [Berardi] |
17962 | The truth-maker principle is that every truth has a sufficient truth-maker [Forrest] |
23538 | Nothingness only exists in consciousness [Berardi] |
23532 | The delusion of free will brings a sense of guilt [Berardi] |
23125 | Most good social changes are incremental, rather than revolutionary [Gopnik] |
23126 | Conservatives often want peace, prosperity and tolerance, but not social fairness [Gopnik] |
23132 | Conservatives believe obedience and rank are essential to social order [Gopnik] |
23128 | The opposite of liberalism is dogmatism [Gopnik] |
23142 | People are fallible, so liberalism tries to distribute power [Gopnik] |
23143 | Liberals have tried very hard to build a conscience into their institutions [Gopnik] |
23537 | American white men trusted the philosophy of winning, and then discovered losing [Berardi] |
23141 | Left-wingers are inconsistent in their essentialist descriptions of social groups [Gopnik] |
23124 | Liberal community is not blood ties or tradition, but shared choices, and sympathy for the losers [Gopnik] |
23127 | Liberal community includes flight from the family, into energetic reforming groups [Gopnik] |
23138 | Modern left-wingers criticise liberalism's control of culture [Gopnik] |
23129 | Right-wingers attack liberal faith in reason, left-wingers attack its faith in reform [Gopnik] |
23133 | Cosmopolitan liberals lack national loyalty, and welcome excessive immigration [Gopnik] |
23139 | Liberalism's attempt to be neutral and colour-blind erases cultural identities [Gopnik] |
23536 | Community is now a nostalgic memory, which no longer exists [Berardi] |
23135 | Classic Marxists see liberalism as the ideology of the bourgeoisie [Gopnik] |
23534 | Communism failed to unite western workers with the oppressed of the south [Berardi] |
23140 | Environmental disasters result not from capitalism, but from a general drive for growth [Gopnik] |
23533 | The economy has replaced medieval theocracy at the centre of our society [Berardi] |
23130 | Popular imperialism gives the poor the belief that their acts have world historical meaning [Gopnik] |
23131 | Patriots love their place, but nationalists have a paranoid ethnic hostility [Gopnik] |
23535 | Western workers turn to nationalism, to avert the effects of globalisation [Berardi] |
23136 | Liberal free speech is actually paid speech [Gopnik] |
23134 | A 'free' society implies a free market, which always produces predatory capitalism and inequalities [Gopnik] |