9 ideas
17950 | The logos enables us to track one particular among a network of objects [Nehamas] |
17951 | A logos may be short, but it contains reference to the whole domain of the object [Nehamas] |
17945 | Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas] |
17946 | Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
17944 | 'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas] |
4053 | If it is desirable that a given patient die, then moral objections to killing them do not apply [Rachels] |
4052 | It has become normal to consider passive euthanasia while condemning active euthanasia [Rachels] |
20713 | God must be fit for worship, but worship abandons morally autonomy, but there is no God [Rachels, by Davies,B] |