11 ideas
22462 | We should speak the truth, but also preserve and pursue it [Foot] |
8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
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] |
10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |