11 ideas
22462 | We should speak the truth, but also preserve and pursue it [Foot] |
22363 | You have only begun to do real science when you can express it in numbers [Kelvin] |
22458 | Consequentialists can hurt the innocent in order to prevent further wickedness [Foot] |
22460 | Why might we think that a state of affairs can be morally good or bad? [Foot] |
22461 | Good outcomes are not external guides to morality, but a part of virtuous actions [Foot] |
22464 | The idea of a good state of affairs has no role in the thought of Aristotle, Rawls or Scanlon [Foot] |
22463 | Morality is seen as tacit legislation by the community [Foot] |
22459 | For consequentialism, it is irrational to follow a rule which in this instance ends badly [Foot] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20644 | Energy has progressed from a mere formula, to a principle pervading all nature [Kelvin] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |