15 ideas
5300 | Philosophers have interpreted the world, but the point is to change it [Marx] |
5297 | Whether human thinking can be 'true' must be decided in practice, not theory [Marx] |
9382 | Subjects may be unaware of their epistemic 'entitlements', unlike their 'justifications' [Burge] |
22598 | The authentic self exists at the level of class, rather than the individual [Marx, by Dunt] |
5298 | The human essence is not found in individuals but in social relations [Marx] |
5901 | Is 'productive of happiness' the definition of 'right', or the cause of it? [Ross on Bentham] |
5934 | Of Bentham's 'dimensions' of pleasure, only intensity and duration matter [Ross on Bentham] |
3777 | Pleasure and pain control all human desires and duties [Bentham] |
3554 | Bentham thinks happiness is feeling good, but why use morality to achieve that? [Annas on Bentham] |
3781 | The value of pleasures and pains is their force [Bentham] |
3778 | The community's interest is a sum of individual interests [Bentham] |
20280 | Large mature animals are more rational than babies. But all that really matters is - can they suffer? [Bentham] |
3779 | Unnatural, when it means anything, means infrequent [Bentham] |
3780 | We must judge a thing morally to know if it conforms to God's will [Bentham] |
5299 | Religious feeling is social in origin [Marx] |