31 ideas
| 22496 | Wisdom only implies the knowledge achievable in any normal lifetime [Foot] |
| 6019 | If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus] |
| 3847 | Man is nothing else but the sum of his actions [Sartre] |
| 3846 | Man IS freedom [Sartre] |
| 23694 | All criterions of practical rationality derive from goodness of will [Foot] |
| 23686 | Moral reason is not just neutral, because morality is part of the standard of rationality [Foot, by Hacker-Wright] |
| 23693 | Practical rationality must weigh both what is morally and what is non-morally required [Foot] |
| 3843 | There is no human nature [Sartre] |
| 23687 | Moral virtues arise from human nature, as part of what makes us good human beings [Foot, by Hacker-Wright] |
| 22493 | Sterility is a human defect, but the choice to be childless is not [Foot] |
| 22492 | Virtues are as necessary to humans as stings are to bees [Foot] |
| 20762 | There are no values to justify us, and no excuses [Sartre] |
| 22491 | Moral evaluations are not separate from facts, but concern particular facts about functioning [Foot] |
| 3852 | If values depend on us, freedom is the foundation of all values [Sartre] |
| 22497 | Deep happiness usually comes from the basic things in life [Foot] |
| 22498 | Happiness is enjoying the pursuit and attainment of right ends [Foot] |
| 23695 | Good actions can never be justified by the good they brings to their agent [Foot] |
| 22499 | We all know that just pretending to be someone's friend is not the good life [Foot] |
| 22495 | Someone is a good person because of their rational will, not their body or memory [Foot] |
| 20764 | In becoming what we want to be we create what we think man ought to be [Sartre] |
| 3848 | Cowards are responsible for their cowardice [Sartre] |
| 20763 | When my personal freedom becomes involved, I must want freedom for everyone else [Sartre] |
| 22229 | Existentialists says that cowards and heroes make themselves [Sartre] |
| 3842 | Existence before essence (or begin with the subjective) [Sartre] |
| 6868 | 'Existence precedes essence' means we have no pre-existing self, but create it through existence [Sartre, by Le Poidevin] |
| 3844 | Existentialism says man is whatever he makes of himself [Sartre] |
| 20754 | It is dishonest to offer passions as an excuse [Sartre] |
| 6571 | When a man must choose between his mother and the Resistance, no theory can help [Sartre, by Fogelin] |
| 22502 | Refraining from murder is not made good by authenticity or self-fulfilment [Foot] |
| 3851 | If I do not choose, that is still a choice [Sartre] |
| 3845 | Without God there is no intelligibility or value [Sartre] |