16 ideas
22167 | Our images of bodies are not produced by the bodies, but by our own minds [Augustine, by Aquinas] |
22117 | Our minds grasp reality by direct illumination (rather than abstraction from experience) [Augustine, by Matthews] |
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
6172 | The Inverted Earth example shows that phenomenal properties are not representational [Block, by Rowlands] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
22118 | Augustine created the modern concept of the will [Augustine, by Matthews] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
4348 | Love, and do what you will [Augustine] |
7821 | Pagans produced three hundred definitions of the highest good [Augustine, by Grayling] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
22119 | Augustine said (unusually) that 'ought' does not imply 'can' [Augustine, by Matthews] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
22116 | Augustine identified Donatism, Pelagianism and Manicheism as the main heresies [Augustine, by Matthews] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |
19338 | Augustine said evil does not really exist, and evil is a limitation in goodness [Augustine, by Perkins] |