9 ideas
20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
4242 | Pure supervenience explains nothing, and is a sign of something fundamental we don't know [Nagel] |
20356 | Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson] |
21004 | Hart (against Bentham) says human rights are what motivate legal rights [Hart,HLA, by Sen] |
20932 | Positive law needs secondary 'rules of recognition' for their correct application [Hart,HLA, by Zimmermann,J] |
20931 | Hart replaced positivism with the democratic requirement of the people's acceptance [Hart,HLA, by Zimmermann,J] |
20366 | A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson] |