14 ideas
21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
5952 | Rather than being the whole soul, maybe I am its chief part? [Plutarch] |
21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
5951 | If atoms have no qualities, they cannot possibly produce a mind [Plutarch] |
20796 | Action needs an affinity for a presentation, and an impulse toward the affinity [Plutarch] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
3031 | The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5948 | The good life involves social participation, loyalty, temperance and honesty [Plutarch] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
5950 | If only atoms exist, how do qualities arise when the atoms come together? [Plutarch] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |
5955 | No one will ever find a city that lacks religious practices [Plutarch] |