17 ideas
7357 | People who control others with fluent language often end up being hated [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
22480 | Possessing the virtue of justice disposes a person to good practical rationality [Foot] |
7358 | All men prefer outward appearance to true excellence [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7362 | Humans are similar, but social conventions drive us apart (sages and idiots being the exceptions) [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
22477 | Calling a knife or farmer or speech or root good does not involve attitudes or feelings [Foot] |
18225 | If we can't reason about value, we can reason about the unconditional source of value [Korsgaard] |
18228 | An end can't be an ultimate value just because it is useless! [Korsgaard] |
18224 | Goodness is given either by a psychological state, or the attribution of a property [Korsgaard] |
7360 | Do not do to others what you would not desire yourself [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
22478 | The essential thing is the 'needs' of plants and animals, and their operative parts [Foot] |
7359 | Excess and deficiency are equally at fault [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7363 | The virtues of the best people are humility, maganimity, sincerity, diligence, and graciousness [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
22479 | Observing justice is necessary to humans, like hunting to wolves or dancing to bees [Foot] |
18233 | Contemplation is final because it is an activity which is not a process [Korsgaard] |
18226 | For Aristotle, contemplation consists purely of understanding [Korsgaard] |
7361 | Men of the highest calibre avoid political life completely [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
23393 | Confucianism assumes that all good developments have happened, and there is only one Way [Norden on Kongzi (Confucius)] |