26 ideas
6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes] |
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
6213 | A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd [Hobbes] |
6208 | Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head [Hobbes] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
6209 | There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato] |
193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
6210 | Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes] |
197 | Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil [Plato] |
200 | People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure [Plato] |
188 | Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato] |
204 | Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato] |
189 | If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |