27 ideas
8013 | In the Reformation, morality became unconditional but irrational, individually autonomous, and secular [MacIntyre] |
8021 | The Levellers and the Diggers mark a turning point in the history of morality [MacIntyre] |
6675 | The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing [Pascal] |
22011 | The first principles of truth are not rational, but are known by the heart [Pascal] |
8006 | When Aristotle speaks of soul he means something like personality [MacIntyre] |
6681 | We only want to know things so that we can talk about them [Pascal] |
6676 | Painting makes us admire things of which we do not admire the originals [Pascal] |
6680 | It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river [Pascal] |
8002 | Sophists don't distinguish a person outside one social order from someone outside all order [MacIntyre] |
8012 | The value/fact logical gulf is misleading, because social facts involve values [MacIntyre] |
6677 | Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good [Pascal] |
8005 | 'Happiness' is a bad translation of 'eudaimonia', which includes both behaving and faring well [MacIntyre] |
6678 | We live for the past or future, and so are never happy in the present [Pascal] |
8001 | 'Dikaiosune' is justice, but also fairness and personal integrity [MacIntyre] |
8023 | My duties depend on my identity, which depends on my social relations [MacIntyre] |
20732 | If man considers himself as lost and imprisoned in the universe, he will be terrified [Pascal] |
8022 | I am naturally free if I am not tied to anyone by a contract [MacIntyre] |
6682 | Majority opinion is visible and authoritative, although not very clever [Pascal] |
6679 | It is not good to be too free [Pascal] |
8031 | Fans of natural rights or laws can't agree on what the actual rights or laws are [MacIntyre] |
7457 | Pascal is right, but relies on the unsupported claim of a half as the chance of God's existence [Hacking on Pascal] |
7455 | Pascal knows you can't force belief, but you can make it much more probable [Pascal, by Hacking] |
7456 | The libertine would lose a life of enjoyable sin if he chose the cloisters [Hacking on Pascal] |
6684 | If you win the wager on God's existence you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing [Pascal] |
16713 | Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian] |
8008 | The Bible is a story about God in which humans are incidental characters [MacIntyre] |
6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |