13 ideas
21054 | Reason enables the unbounded extension of our rules and intentions [Kant] |
21053 | The manifest will in the world of phenomena has to conform to the laws of nature [Kant] |
6237 | Fear of God is not conscience, which is a natural feeling of offence at bad behaviour [Shaftesbury] |
6234 | If an irrational creature with kind feelings was suddenly given reason, its reason would approve of kind feelings [Shaftesbury] |
6233 | A person isn't good if only tying their hands prevents their mischief, so the affections decide a person's morality [Shaftesbury] |
5996 | Critolaus redefined Aristotle's moral aim as fulfilment instead of happiness [Critolaus, by White,SA] |
6236 | People more obviously enjoy social pleasures than they do eating and drinking [Shaftesbury] |
6235 | Self-interest is not intrinsically good, but its absence is evil, as public good needs it [Shaftesbury] |
6232 | Every creature has a right and a wrong state which guide its actions, so there must be a natural end [Shaftesbury] |
21055 | Our aim is a constitution which combines maximum freedom with strong restraint [Kant] |
21056 | The vitality of business needs maximum freedom (while avoiding harm to others) [Kant] |
21057 | The highest ideal of social progress is a universal cosmopolitan existence [Kant] |
5642 | For Shaftesbury, we must already have a conscience to be motivated to religious obedience [Shaftesbury, by Scruton] |