Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters' and 'On the Basis of Morality'

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8 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 1. Artistic Intentions

23903

When we admire a work, we see ourselves as its creator [Weil]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

21375

Reason can be vicious, and great crimes have to be rational [Schopenhauer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

21379

Man's three basic ethical incentives are egoism, malice and compassion [Schopenhauer]

25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality

23901

Relationships depend on equality, so unequal treatment kills them [Weil]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights

21376

Philosophy treats animals as exploitable things, ignoring the significance of their lives [Schopenhauer]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 5. Bible

23904

The cruelty of the Old Testament put me off Christianity [Weil]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

23902

I attach little importance to immortality, which is an undecidable fact, and irrelevant to us [Weil]