14 ideas
7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
7118 | La Rochefoucauld's idea of disguised self-love implies an unconscious mind [Rochefoucauld, by Sartre] |
24008 | Reference to a person's emotions is often essential to understanding their actions [Williams,B] |
24009 | Moral education must involve learning about various types of feeling towards things [Williams,B] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
24007 | Emotivism saw morality as expressing emotions, and influencing others' emotions [Williams,B] |
7912 | Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld] |
7915 | Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld] |
7917 | Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld] |
7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
24010 | An admirable human being should have certain kinds of emotional responses [Williams,B] |
7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
24012 | Kant's love of consistency is too rigid, and it even overrides normal fairness [Williams,B] |
9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |