20 ideas
5831 | The new view is that "water" is a name, and has no definition [Schwartz,SP] |
5829 | We refer to Thales successfully by name, even if all descriptions of him are false [Schwartz,SP] |
5830 | The traditional theory of names says some of the descriptions must be correct [Schwartz,SP] |
5303 | For the proletariate, law, morality and religion are just expressions of bourgeois interests [Marx/Engels] |
5826 | The intension of "lemon" is the conjunction of properties associated with it [Schwartz,SP] |
21998 | Bourgeois interests create our morality, law and religion [Marx/Engels] |
7590 | Consequentialism emphasises value rather than obligation in morality [Scruton] |
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] |
5302 | Modern governments are just bourgeois management committees [Marx/Engels] |
5304 | Communism aims to abolish not all property, but bourgeois property [Marx/Engels] |
5307 | Many of the bourgeois rights grievances are a form of self-defence [Marx/Engels] |
5306 | The free development of each should be the condition for the free development of all [Marx/Engels] |
7592 | For positivists law is a matter of form, for naturalists it is a matter of content [Scruton] |
5305 | Communists want to rescue education from the ruling class [Marx/Engels] |
5301 | The history of all existing society is the history of class struggles [Marx/Engels] |
7587 | The issue of abortion seems insoluble, because there is nothing with which to compare it [Scruton] |