22757 | Stoics say that folly alone is evil [Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus] |
21826 | The Soul reasons about the Right, so there must be some permanent Right about which it reasons [Plotinus] |
22112 | For humans good is accordance with reason, and bad is contrary to reason [Aquinas] |
21872 | We seek our own advantage, and virtue is doing this rationally [Spinoza] |
21873 | Men only agree in nature if they are guided by reason [Spinoza] |
12473 | We can demand a reason for any moral rule [Locke] |
12495 | Pursuit of happiness is the highest perfection of intellectual nature [Locke] |
12541 | Morality can be demonstrated, because we know the real essences behind moral words [Locke] |
19769 | Rational morality is OK for brainy people, but ordinary life can't rely on that [Rousseau] |
5074 | Kant united religion and philosophy, by basing obedience to law on reason instead of faith [Taylor,R on Kant] |
8024 | The categorical imperative says nothing about what our activities and ends should be [MacIntyre on Kant] |
18235 | Only human reason can confer value on our choices [Kant, by Korsgaard] |
21375 | Reason can be vicious, and great crimes have to be rational [Schopenhauer] |
21915 | To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer] |
2921 | Philosophy grasps the limits of human reason, and values are beyond it [Nietzsche] |
14812 | Intellect is tied to morality, because it requires good memory and powerful imagination [Nietzsche] |
20572 | De Sade said it was impossible to rationally argue against murder [Adorno/Horkheimer] |
23684 | Morality gives everyone reasons to act, irrespective of their desires [Foot, by Hacker-Wright] |
23690 | We all have reason to cultivate the virtues, even when we lack the desire [Foot, by Hacker-Wright] |
23685 | Reason is not a motivator of morality [Foot, by Hacker-Wright] |
23691 | Rejecting moral rules may be villainous, but it isn't inconsistent [Foot] |
23686 | Moral reason is not just neutral, because morality is part of the standard of rationality [Foot, by Hacker-Wright] |
23693 | Practical rationality must weigh both what is morally and what is non-morally required [Foot] |
9238 | Morality isn't based on reason; moral indignation is quite unlike disapproval of irrationality [Frankfurt] |
8045 | The failure of Enlightenment attempts to justify morality will explain our own culture [MacIntyre] |
12037 | Euripides's Medea is a key case of reason versus the passions [Annas] |
20165 | Reason and morality do not coincide; immorality can be reasonable, with an ideology [Kekes] |
20171 | Practical reason is not universal and impersonal, because it depends on what success is [Kekes] |
20175 | If morality has to be rational, then moral conflicts need us to be irrational and immoral [Kekes] |
23729 | Moral internalism says a judgement of rightness is thereby motivating [Smith,M] |
23730 | 'Rationalism' says the rightness of an action is a reason to perform it [Smith,M] |
18678 | Maybe final value rests on the extrinsic property of being valued by a rational agent [Korsgaard, by Orsi] |
15675 | We don't condemn people for being bad at reasoning [Finlayson] |