16 ideas
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
5078 | Kant and Mill both try to explain right and wrong, without a divine lawgiver [Taylor,R] |
5067 | Morality based on 'forbid', 'permit' and 'require' implies someone who does these things [Taylor,R] |
5079 | Pleasure can have a location, and be momentary, and come and go - but happiness can't [Taylor,R] |
5068 | 'Eudaimonia' means 'having a good demon', implying supreme good fortune [Taylor,R] |
5076 | To Greeks it seemed obvious that the virtue of anything is the perfection of its function [Taylor,R] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
5077 | The modern idea of obligation seems to have lost the idea of an obligation 'to' something [Taylor,R] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
5066 | If we are made in God's image, pursuit of excellence is replaced by duty to obey God [Taylor,R] |
5065 | The ethics of duty requires a religious framework [Taylor,R] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |