17 ideas
11970 | Logicians like their entities to exhibit a maximum degree of purity [Kaplan] |
11969 | Models nicely separate particulars from their clothing, and logicians often accept that metaphysically [Kaplan] |
11971 | The simplest solution to transworld identification is to adopt bare particulars [Kaplan] |
11973 | Unusual people may have no counterparts, or several [Kaplan] |
11972 | Essence is a transworld heir line, rather than a collection of properties [Kaplan] |
22371 | Determinism threatens free will if actions can be causally traced to external factors [Foot] |
11967 | Sentences might have the same sense when logically equivalent - or never have the same sense [Kaplan] |
22372 | Not all actions need motives, but it is irrational to perform troublesome actions with no motive [Foot] |
7590 | Consequentialism emphasises value rather than obligation in morality [Scruton] |
22373 | People can act out of vanity without being vain, or even vain about this kind of thing [Foot] |
7589 | Altruism is either emotional (where your interests are mine) or moral (where they are reasons for me) [Scruton] |
7595 | The idea of a right seems fairly basic; justice may be the disposition to accord rights to people [Scruton] |
7588 | Allegiance is fundamental to the conservative view of society [Scruton] |
7594 | Democrats are committed to a belief and to its opposite, if the majority prefer the latter [Scruton] |
7593 | Liberals focus on universal human freedom, natural rights, and tolerance [Scruton, by PG] |
7592 | For positivists law is a matter of form, for naturalists it is a matter of content [Scruton] |
7587 | The issue of abortion seems insoluble, because there is nothing with which to compare it [Scruton] |