10 ideas
22820 | Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom [Hösle] |
22462 | We should speak the truth, but also preserve and pursue it [Foot] |
490 | Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus] |
22458 | Consequentialists can hurt the innocent in order to prevent further wickedness [Foot] |
22460 | Why might we think that a state of affairs can be morally good or bad? [Foot] |
22461 | Good outcomes are not external guides to morality, but a part of virtuous actions [Foot] |
22464 | The idea of a good state of affairs has no role in the thought of Aristotle, Rawls or Scanlon [Foot] |
22463 | Morality is seen as tacit legislation by the community [Foot] |
22459 | For consequentialism, it is irrational to follow a rule which in this instance ends badly [Foot] |
22819 | In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical [Hösle] |