9 ideas
9261 | The 'Ethics' is disappointing, because it fails to try to justify our duties [Prichard] |
20991 | People prepare our dinner from their own self-interest, not from humanity [Smith,A] |
9262 | The mistake is to think we can prove what can only be seen directly in moral thinking [Prichard] |
9260 | Virtues won't generate an obligation, so it isn't a basis for morality [Prichard] |
9259 | We feel obligations to overcome our own failings, and these are not relations to other people [Prichard] |
9258 | If pain were instrinsically wrong, it would be immoral to inflict it on ourselves [Prichard] |
20680 | Selfish profit-seeking increases collective wealth, so greed is good, and egoism is altruism [Smith,A, by Harari] |
16713 | Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian] |
6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |