13 ideas
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
6253 | Reason is our power of finding out true propositions [Hutcheson] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
3488 | Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
6256 | Can't the moral sense make mistakes, as the other senses do? [Hutcheson] |
22344 | Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch] |
6252 | Happiness is a pleasant sensation, or continued state of such sensations [Hutcheson] |
6257 | You can't form moral rules without an end, which needs feelings and a moral sense [Hutcheson] |
6254 | We are asked to follow God's ends because he is our benefactor, but why must we do that? [Hutcheson] |
6255 | Why may God not have a superior moral sense very similar to ours? [Hutcheson] |