11 ideas
22115 | Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas] |
20700 | Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas] |
6479 | Noninterference requires justification as much as interference does [Nagel] |
6450 | Morality must be motivating, and not because of pre-moral motives [Nagel] |
6447 | Game theory misses out the motivation arising from the impersonal standpoint [Nagel] |
467 | A virtue is a combination of intelligence, strength and luck [Ion] |
6446 | In ethics we abstract from our identity, but not from our humanity [Nagel] |
6477 | I can only universalise a maxim if everyone else could also universalise it [Nagel] |
6448 | A legitimate system is one accepted as both impartial and reasonably partial [Nagel] |
6478 | Democracy is opposed to equality, if the poor are not a majority [Nagel] |
15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |