24 ideas
9808 | Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics [Badiou] |
9812 | In mathematics, if a problem can be formulated, it will eventually be solved [Badiou] |
9813 | Mathematics shows that thinking is not confined to the finite [Badiou] |
9809 | Mathematics inscribes being as such [Badiou] |
9811 | It is of the essence of being to appear [Badiou] |
3772 | The will, in the beginning, is entirely produced by desire [Mill] |
9814 | All great poetry is engaged in rivalry with mathematics [Badiou] |
3769 | With early training, any absurdity or evil may be given the power of conscience [Mill] |
3767 | Motive shows the worth of the agent, but not of the action [Mill] |
3771 | Virtues only have value because they achieve some further end [Mill] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
3768 | Orthodox morality is the only one which feels obligatory [Mill] |
3764 | Actions are right if they promote pleasure, wrong if they promote pain [Mill] |
3776 | Utilitarianism only works if everybody has a totally equal right to happiness [Mill] |
7202 | The English believe in the task of annihilating evil for the victory of good [Nietzsche on Mill] |
5935 | Mill's qualities of pleasure is an admission that there are other good states of mind than pleasure [Ross on Mill] |
3766 | Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied [Mill] |
3765 | Only pleasure and freedom from pain are desirable as ends [Mill] |
3763 | Ultimate goods such as pleasure can never be proved to be good [Mill] |
3770 | General happiness is only desirable because individuals desire their own happiness [Mill] |
6697 | Moral rules protecting human welfare are more vital than local maxims [Mill] |
3774 | Rights are a matter of justice, not of benevolence [Mill] |
3773 | No individual has the right to receive our benevolence [Mill] |
3775 | A right is a valid claim to society's protection [Mill] |