28 ideas
21032 | Speak truth only to those who deserve the truth [Sandel] |
21033 | Careful evasions of truth at least show respect for it [Sandel] |
19419 | Not all of perception is accompanied by consciousness [Leibniz] |
19421 | Souls act as if there were no bodies, and bodies act as if there were no souls [Leibniz] |
19420 | Death and generation are just transformations of an animal, augmented or diminished [Leibniz] |
21036 | Not all deals are fair deals [Sandel] |
21038 | Does consent create the obligation, or must there be some benefit? [Sandel] |
21039 | Moral contracts involve both consent and reciprocity; making the deal, and keeping it [Sandel] |
21030 | The categorical imperative is not the Golden Rule, which concerns contingent desires [Sandel] |
21031 | Man cannot dispose of himself, because he is not a thing to be owned [Sandel] |
21035 | Just visiting (and using roads) is hardly ratifying the Constitution [Sandel] |
21037 | A ratified constitution may not be a just constitution [Sandel] |
21034 | A just constitution harmonises the different freedoms [Sandel] |
21049 | Liberal freedom was a response to assigned destinies like caste and class [Sandel] |
21040 | Libertarians just want formal equality in a free market; the meritocratic view wants fair equality [Sandel] |
21028 | We can approach justice through welfare, or freedom, or virtue [Sandel] |
21027 | Justice concerns how a society distributes what it prizes - wealth, rights, power and honours [Sandel] |
21042 | Should we redress wrongs done by a previous generation? [Sandel] |
21043 | Distributive justice concern deserts, as well as who gets what [Sandel] |
21052 | Justice is about how we value things, and not just about distributions [Sandel] |
21048 | Work is not fair if it is negotiated, even in a fair situation, but if it suits the nature of the worker [Sandel] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
21045 | Teleological thinking is essential for social and political issues [Sandel] |
19416 | Not all of matter is animated, any more than a pond full of living fish is animated [Leibniz] |
19422 | Every particle of matter contains organic bodies [Leibniz] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
19418 | Mechanics shows that all motion originates in other motion, so there is a Prime Mover [Leibniz] |
19417 | All substances are in harmony, even though separate, so they must have one divine cause [Leibniz] |