11 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
14637 | Only individuals have essences, so numbers (as a higher type based on classes) lack them [McMichael] |
14636 | Essences are the interesting necessary properties resulting from a thing's own peculiar nature [McMichael] |
14640 | Maybe essential properties have to be intrinsic, as well as necessary? [McMichael] |
14638 | Essentialism is false, because it implies the existence of necessary singular propositions [McMichael] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
3236 | Equality of opportunity without equality of respect would create a very inhuman society [Williams,B] |
3234 | Equality seems to require that each person be acknowledged as having a significant point of view [Williams,B] |
3233 | Equality implies that people are alike in potential as well as in needs [Williams,B] |
3235 | It is a mark of extreme exploitation that the sufferers do not realise their plight [Williams,B] |
14639 | Individuals enter into laws only through their general qualities and relations [McMichael] |