11 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
6851 | We overvalue whether arguments are valid, and undervalue whether they are interesting [Monk] |
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] |
6850 | Wittgenstein pared his life down in his search for decency [Monk] |
21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |