18 ideas
| 12712 | Substance is that which can act [Leibniz] |
| 12737 | Nature can be fully explained by final causes alone, or by efficient causes alone [Leibniz] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 2711 | Prescriptivism implies a commitment, but descriptivism doesn't [Hare] |
| 2709 | Prescriptivism sees 'ought' statements as imperatives which are universalisable [Hare] |
| 2710 | Moral judgements must invoke some sort of principle [Hare] |
| 7602 | In the Bible God changes his mind (repenting of creating humanity, in the Flood) [Armstrong,K] |
| 7605 | Monotheism introduced intolerance into religious thinking [Armstrong,K] |
| 7599 | Around 800 BCE teachers superseded gods in India [Armstrong,K] |
| 7597 | There is virtually no sign of monotheism in the Pentateuch [Armstrong,K] |
| 7606 | The idea that Jesus was God was only settled in the fourth century [Armstrong,K] |
| 7596 | Faith is not just belief in propositions, but also putting trust in them [Armstrong,K] |