18 ideas
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] |
4006 | I can only be aware of myself as a person who changes by means of my personal history [Taylor,C] |
3546 | 'Phronesis' should translate as 'practical intelligence', not as prudence [Annas] |
4003 | Selfhood and moral values are inextricably intertwined [Taylor,C] |
3547 | Epicureans achieve pleasure through character development [Annas] |
3543 | Cyrenaics pursue pleasure, but don't equate it with happiness [Annas] |
3541 | Ancient ethics uses attractive notions, not imperatives [Annas] |
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] |
3550 | Principles cover life as a whole, where rules just cover actions [Annas] |
3551 | Virtue theory tries to explain our duties in terms of our character [Annas] |
4004 | Consistency presupposes intrinsic description [Taylor,C] |
3552 | If excessively good actions are admirable but not required, then duty isn't basic [Annas] |
4010 | In later utilitarianism the modern stress on freedom leads to the rejection of paternalism [Taylor,C] |
3542 | We should do good when necessary, not maximise it [Annas] |
5994 | Is the cosmos open or closed, mechanical or teleological, alive or inanimate, and created or eternal? [Robinson,TM, by PG] |
4009 | Nominalists defended the sovereignty of God against the idea of natural existing good and evil [Taylor,C] |