12 ideas
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
21697 | The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand [Quine] |
21698 | All relations, apart from ancestrals, can be reduced to simpler logic [Quine] |
21696 | Nominalism rejects both attributes and classes (where extensionalism accepts the classes) [Quine] |
23146 | Motives produce intentions, which lead to actions [Driver] |
23144 | Virtue should be defined by consequences, not by states of mind [Driver] |
23148 | Virtues are character traits or dispositions which produce good consequences for others [Driver] |
23150 | Control of pregnancy and knowledge of paternity have downgraded chastity [Driver] |
23147 | Good intentions are not necessary for virtue [Driver] |
3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
23149 | If generosity systematically turned recipients into parasites, it wouldn't be a virtue [Driver] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |