15 ideas
| 21222 | Logicians presuppose a world, and ignore logic/world connections, so their logic is impure [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol] |
| 21223 | Phenomenology grounds logic in subjective experience [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol] |
| 21224 | Pure mathematics is the relations between all possible objects, and is thus formal ontology [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol] |
| 7590 | Consequentialism emphasises value rather than obligation in morality [Scruton] |
| 20482 | Virtue inspires Stoics, but I want a good temperament [Montaigne] |
| 20480 | There is not much point in only becoming good near the end of your life [Montaigne] |
| 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] |
| 20481 | Nothing we say can be worse than unsaying it in the face of authority [Montaigne] |
| 7592 | For positivists law is a matter of form, for naturalists it is a matter of content [Scruton] |
| 20479 | People at home care far more than soldiers risking death about the outcome of wars [Montaigne] |
| 7587 | The issue of abortion seems insoluble, because there is nothing with which to compare it [Scruton] |