28 ideas
22496 | Wisdom only implies the knowledge achievable in any normal lifetime [Foot] |
7893 | Our life is the creation of our mind [Anon (Dham)] |
7898 | The world is just the illusion of an appearance [Anon (Dham)] |
23694 | All criterions of practical rationality derive from goodness of will [Foot] |
22687 | Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut] |
22686 | Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut] |
22684 | Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut] |
22685 | Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut] |
22689 | If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut] |
22690 | 'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut] |
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] |
22493 | Sterility is a human defect, but the choice to be childless is not [Foot] |
22492 | Virtues are as necessary to humans as stings are to bees [Foot] |
22491 | Moral evaluations are not separate from facts, but concern particular facts about functioning [Foot] |
7894 | Hate is conquered by love [Anon (Dham)] |
22498 | Happiness is enjoying the pursuit and attainment of right ends [Foot] |
22497 | Deep happiness usually comes from the basic things in life [Foot] |
7899 | Even divine pleasure will not satisfy the wise, as it is insatiable, and leads to pain [Anon (Dham)] |
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] |
7896 | The foolish gradually fill with evil, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
7897 | The wise gradually fill with good, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)] |
22495 | Someone is a good person because of their rational will, not their body or memory [Foot] |
7895 | Don't befriend fools; either find superior friends, or travel alone [Anon (Dham)] |
22502 | Refraining from murder is not made good by authenticity or self-fulfilment [Foot] |
7900 | Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks [Anon (Dham)] |