16 ideas
3269 | If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel] |
3270 | Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel] |
3488 | Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle] |
4020 | The modern self has disengaged reason, self-exploration, and personal commitment [Taylor,C] |
4002 | My aim is to map the connections between our sense of self and our moral understanding [Taylor,C] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
4006 | I can only be aware of myself as a person who changes by means of my personal history [Taylor,C] |
23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
4003 | Selfhood and moral values are inextricably intertwined [Taylor,C] |
22344 | Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch] |
4021 | Willingness to risk life was the constitutive quality of the man of honour [Taylor,C] |
4005 | To have respect for people, you must feel their claims, or their injustices, or hold them in awe [Taylor,C] |
4004 | Consistency presupposes intrinsic description [Taylor,C] |
4010 | In later utilitarianism the modern stress on freedom leads to the rejection of paternalism [Taylor,C] |
3268 | If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel] |
4009 | Nominalists defended the sovereignty of God against the idea of natural existing good and evil [Taylor,C] |