23 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] |
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
8006 | When Aristotle speaks of soul he means something like personality [MacIntyre] |
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] |
5901 | Is 'productive of happiness' the definition of 'right', or the cause of it? [Ross on Bentham] |
8005 | 'Happiness' is a bad translation of 'eudaimonia', which includes both behaving and faring well [MacIntyre] |
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] |
3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
8001 | 'Dikaiosune' is justice, but also fairness and personal integrity [MacIntyre] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |
8023 | My duties depend on my identity, which depends on my social relations [MacIntyre] |
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] |
8022 | I am naturally free if I am not tied to anyone by a contract [MacIntyre] |
3778 | The community's interest is a sum of individual interests [Bentham] |
8031 | Fans of natural rights or laws can't agree on what the actual rights or laws are [MacIntyre] |
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] |
8008 | The Bible is a story about God in which humans are incidental characters [MacIntyre] |