9 ideas
3269 | If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel] |
19404 | Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
3270 | Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel] |
23111 | If we say that freedom depends on rationality, the irrational actions are not free [Sidgwick] |
23059 | Self-interest is not rational, if the self is just a succession of memories and behaviour [Sidgwick, by Gray] |
4129 | It is self-evident (from the point of view of the Universe) that no individual has more importance than another [Sidgwick] |
3268 | If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel] |
20588 | Sidwick argues for utilitarian institutions, rather than actions [Sidgwick, by Tuckness/Wolf] |
19403 | Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz] |