18 ideas
5637 | Nowadays logic is seen as the science of extensions, not intensions [Scruton] |
5636 | Cartesian 'ideas' confuse concepts and propositions [Scruton] |
23814 | Every human yearns for an unattainable transcendent good [Weil] |
23824 | Where human needs are satisfied we find happiness, friendship and beauty [Weil] |
23815 | We cannot equally respect what is unequal, so equal respect needs a shared ground [Weil] |
23823 | Life needs risks to avoid sickly boredom [Weil] |
5660 | Allegiance is prior to the recognition of individual rights [Scruton] |
23822 | We all need to partipate in public tasks, and take some initiative [Weil] |
23817 | We need both equality (to attend to human needs) and hierarchy (as a scale of responsibilities) [Weil] |
23104 | Dworkin believed we should promote equality, to increase autonomy [Dworkin, by Kekes] |
23819 | Deliberate public lying should be punished [Weil] |
23818 | We have liberty in the space between nature and accepted authority [Weil] |
23257 | We can treat people as equals, or actually treat them equally [Dworkin, by Grayling] |
18621 | Treating people as equals is the one basic value of all plausible political theories [Dworkin, by Kymlicka] |
5653 | A right is a power which is enforced in the name of justice [Scruton] |
23820 | People need personal and collective property, and a social class lacking property is shameful [Weil] |
23821 | Crime should be punished, to bring the perpetrator freely back to morality [Weil] |
23816 | Attention to a transcendent reality motivates a duty to foster the good of humanity [Weil] |