18 ideas
| 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
| 21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
| 21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
| 21740 | I doubt whether ethics is part of philosophy [Russell] |
| 21741 | 'You ought to do p' primarily has emotional content, expressing approval [Russell] |
| 21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
| 21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
| 21746 | Unlike hate, all desires can be satisfied by love [Russell] |
| 21747 | Goodness is a combination of love and knowledge [Russell] |
| 21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
| 21743 | In wartime, happiness is hating the enemy, because it gives the war a purpose [Russell] |
| 21742 | Originally virtue was obedience, to gods, government, or custom [Russell] |
| 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
| 21745 | Act so as to produce harmonious rather than discordant desires [Russell] |
| 21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
| 21744 | Legally curbing people's desires is inferior to improving their desires [Russell] |
| 22891 | We could be aware of time if senses briefly vibrated, extending their experience of movement [Russell, by Bardon] |
| 21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |