24 ideas
22496 | Wisdom only implies the knowledge achievable in any normal lifetime [Foot] |
7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
10356 | Relativism can be seen as about the rationality of different cultural traditions [MacIntyre, by Kusch] |
7118 | La Rochefoucauld's idea of disguised self-love implies an unconscious mind [Rochefoucauld, by Sartre] |
23694 | All criterions of practical rationality derive from goodness of will [Foot] |
23686 | Moral reason is not just neutral, because morality is part of the standard of rationality [Foot, by Hacker-Wright] |
23693 | Practical rationality must weigh both what is morally and what is non-morally required [Foot] |
23687 | Moral virtues arise from human nature, as part of what makes us good human beings [Foot, by Hacker-Wright] |
22492 | Virtues are as necessary to humans as stings are to bees [Foot] |
22493 | Sterility is a human defect, but the choice to be childless is not [Foot] |
22491 | Moral evaluations are not separate from facts, but concern particular facts about functioning [Foot] |
7912 | Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld] |
7915 | Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld] |
22497 | Deep happiness usually comes from the basic things in life [Foot] |
22498 | Happiness is enjoying the pursuit and attainment of right ends [Foot] |
7917 | Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld] |
23695 | Good actions can never be justified by the good they brings to their agent [Foot] |
22499 | We all know that just pretending to be someone's friend is not the good life [Foot] |
7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
22495 | Someone is a good person because of their rational will, not their body or memory [Foot] |
7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |
22502 | Refraining from murder is not made good by authenticity or self-fulfilment [Foot] |
23080 | Liberals debate how conservative or radical to be, but don't question their basics [MacIntyre] |