25 ideas
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
21059 | General rules of action also need a judgement about when to apply them [Kant] |
7590 | Consequentialism emphasises value rather than obligation in morality [Scruton] |
21061 | Duty does not aim at an end, but gives rise to universal happiness as aim of the will [Kant] |
3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
7589 | Altruism is either emotional (where your interests are mine) or moral (where they are reasons for me) [Scruton] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |
21060 | It can't be a duty to strive after the impossible [Kant] |
21062 | The will's motive is the absolute law itself, and moral feeling is receptivity to law [Kant] |
21071 | There can be no restraints on freedom if reason does not reveal some basic rights [Kant] |
7595 | The idea of a right seems fairly basic; justice may be the disposition to accord rights to people [Scruton] |
21063 | Personal contracts are for some end, but a civil state contract involves a duty to share [Kant] |
21068 | There must be a unanimous contract that citizens accept majority decisions [Kant] |
21069 | A contract is theoretical, but it can guide rulers to make laws which the whole people will accept [Kant] |
21070 | A law is unjust if the whole people could not possibly agree to it [Kant] |
21067 | A citizen must control his own life, and possess property or an important skill [Kant] |
7588 | Allegiance is fundamental to the conservative view of society [Scruton] |
7594 | Democrats are committed to a belief and to its opposite, if the majority prefer the latter [Scruton] |
21064 | A lawful civil state must embody freedom, equality and independence for its members [Kant] |
7593 | Liberals focus on universal human freedom, natural rights, and tolerance [Scruton, by PG] |
21066 | Citizens can rise to any rank that talent, effort and luck can achieve [Kant] |
21065 | You can't make a contract renouncing your right to make contracts! [Kant] |
7592 | For positivists law is a matter of form, for naturalists it is a matter of content [Scruton] |
21072 | The people (who have to fight) and not the head of state should declare a war [Kant] |
7587 | The issue of abortion seems insoluble, because there is nothing with which to compare it [Scruton] |