15 ideas
22445 | Morality shows murder is wrong, but not what counts as a murder [Foot] |
22444 | A moral system must deal with the dangers and benefits of life [Foot] |
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] |
22447 | Saying something 'just is' right or wrong creates an illusion of fact and objectivity [Foot] |
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] |
5077 | The modern idea of obligation seems to have lost the idea of an obligation 'to' something [Taylor,R] |
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] |
22448 | We sometimes just use the word 'should' to impose a rule of conduct on someone [Foot] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
22446 | In the case of something lacking independence, calling it a human being is a matter of choice [Foot] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |