23 ideas
| 6230 | If the soul were a tabula rasa, with no innate ideas, there could be no moral goodness or justice [Cudworth] |
| 6228 | Senses cannot judge one another, so what judges senses cannot be a sense, but must be superior [Cudworth] |
| 21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
| 21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
| 6229 | Sense is fixed in the material form, and so can't grasp abstract universals [Cudworth] |
| 21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
| 6227 | Keeping promises and contracts is an obligation of natural justice [Cudworth] |
| 21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
| 7590 | Consequentialism emphasises value rather than obligation in morality [Scruton] |
| 21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
| 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] |
| 21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
| 6225 | Obligation to obey all positive laws is older than all laws [Cudworth] |
| 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] |
| 6224 | An omnipotent will cannot make two things equal or alike if they aren't [Cudworth] |
| 6223 | If the will and pleasure of God controls justice, then anything wicked or unjust would become good if God commanded it [Cudworth] |
| 6226 | The requirement that God must be obeyed must precede any authority of God's commands [Cudworth] |
| 21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |