7 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
8070 | It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
8065 | 'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe] |
8069 | Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe] |
23812 | Force is what turns man into a thing, and ultimately into a corpse [Weil] |
23813 | Only people who understand force, and don't respect it, are capable of justice [Weil] |