31 ideas
3016 | Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius] |
6685 | 'Subjectivism' is an extension of relativism from the social group to the individual [Graham] |
3847 | Man is nothing else but the sum of his actions [Sartre] |
3846 | Man IS freedom [Sartre] |
6699 | The chain of consequences may not be the same as the chain of responsibility [Graham] |
3843 | There is no human nature [Sartre] |
20762 | There are no values to justify us, and no excuses [Sartre] |
3852 | If values depend on us, freedom is the foundation of all values [Sartre] |
6698 | Negative consequences are very hard (and possibly impossible) to assess [Graham] |
6700 | We can't criticise people because of unforeseeable consequences [Graham] |
6704 | Egoism submits to desires, but cannot help form them [Graham] |
20764 | In becoming what we want to be we create what we think man ought to be [Sartre] |
6701 | Rescue operations need spontaneous benevolence, not careful thought [Graham] |
3848 | Cowards are responsible for their cowardice [Sartre] |
20763 | When my personal freedom becomes involved, I must want freedom for everyone else [Sartre] |
6693 | 'What if everybody did that?' rather misses the point as an objection to cheating [Graham] |
6691 | It is more plausible to say people can choose between values, than that they can create them [Graham] |
22229 | Existentialists says that cowards and heroes make themselves [Sartre] |
6688 | Life is only absurd if you expected an explanation and none turns up [Graham] |
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] |
6705 | Existentialism may transcend our nature, unlike eudaimonism [Graham] |
3844 | Existentialism says man is whatever he makes of himself [Sartre] |
20754 | It is dishonest to offer passions as an excuse [Sartre] |
6690 | A standard problem for existentialism is the 'sincere Nazi' [Graham] |
6571 | When a man must choose between his mother and the Resistance, no theory can help [Sartre, by Fogelin] |
6689 | The key to existentialism: the way you make choices is more important than what you choose [Graham] |
3851 | If I do not choose, that is still a choice [Sartre] |
3845 | Without God there is no intelligibility or value [Sartre] |
6706 | The great religions are much more concerned with the religious life than with ethics [Graham] |
6709 | Western religion saves us from death; Eastern religion saves us from immortality [Graham] |