35 ideas
| 8093 | Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier [Joubert] |
| 8095 | We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert] |
| 8107 | The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert] |
| 8099 | The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate [Joubert] |
| 8098 | Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has [Joubert] |
| 21032 | Speak truth only to those who deserve the truth [Sandel] |
| 21033 | Careful evasions of truth at least show respect for it [Sandel] |
| 14296 | Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine] |
| 8101 | To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert] |
| 8094 | The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye [Joubert] |
| 8103 | A thought is as real as a cannon ball [Joubert] |
| 8100 | Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from? [Joubert] |
| 8096 | He gives his body up to pleasure, but not his soul [Joubert] |
| 8104 | What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them? [Joubert] |
| 21036 | Not all deals are fair deals [Sandel] |
| 21038 | Does consent create the obligation, or must there be some benefit? [Sandel] |
| 21039 | Moral contracts involve both consent and reciprocity; making the deal, and keeping it [Sandel] |
| 21030 | The categorical imperative is not the Golden Rule, which concerns contingent desires [Sandel] |
| 8097 | Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support [Joubert] |
| 21031 | Man cannot dispose of himself, because he is not a thing to be owned [Sandel] |
| 21035 | Just visiting (and using roads) is hardly ratifying the Constitution [Sandel] |
| 21037 | A ratified constitution may not be a just constitution [Sandel] |
| 21034 | A just constitution harmonises the different freedoms [Sandel] |
| 21049 | Liberal freedom was a response to assigned destinies like caste and class [Sandel] |
| 21040 | Libertarians just want formal equality in a free market; the meritocratic view wants fair equality [Sandel] |
| 21028 | We can approach justice through welfare, or freedom, or virtue [Sandel] |
| 21027 | Justice concerns how a society distributes what it prizes - wealth, rights, power and honours [Sandel] |
| 21042 | Should we redress wrongs done by a previous generation? [Sandel] |
| 21043 | Distributive justice concern deserts, as well as who gets what [Sandel] |
| 21052 | Justice is about how we value things, and not just about distributions [Sandel] |
| 21048 | Work is not fair if it is negotiated, even in a fair situation, but if it suits the nature of the worker [Sandel] |
| 8106 | In raising a child we must think of his old age [Joubert] |
| 21045 | Teleological thinking is essential for social and political issues [Sandel] |
| 8105 | We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God [Joubert] |
| 8102 | We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love [Joubert] |