16 ideas
| 20752 | For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett] |
| 2705 | How can intuitionists distinguish universal convictions from local cultural ones? [Hare] |
| 2712 | You can't use intuitions to decide which intuitions you should cultivate [Hare] |
| 20756 | Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett] |
| 2706 | Emotivists mistakenly think all disagreements are about facts, and so there are no moral reasons [Hare] |
| 2708 | An 'ought' statement implies universal application [Hare] |
| 2704 | If morality is just a natural or intuitive description, that leads to relativism [Hare] |
| 2703 | Descriptivism say ethical meaning is just truth-conditions; prescriptivism adds an evaluation [Hare] |
| 2707 | If there can be contradictory prescriptions, then reasoning must be involved [Hare] |
| 2709 | Prescriptivism sees 'ought' statements as imperatives which are universalisable [Hare] |
| 2711 | Prescriptivism implies a commitment, but descriptivism doesn't [Hare] |
| 13554 | True greatness is never allowing events to disturb you [Seneca] |
| 13556 | Every night I critically review how I have behaved during the day [Seneca] |
| 13553 | Anger is a vice which afflicts good men as well as bad [Seneca] |
| 13552 | Anger is an extreme vice, threatening sanity, and gripping whole states [Seneca] |
| 2710 | Moral judgements must invoke some sort of principle [Hare] |