11 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
16676 | Why use more things when fewer will do? [William of Ockham] |
6479 | Noninterference requires justification as much as interference does [Nagel] |
6450 | Morality must be motivating, and not because of pre-moral motives [Nagel] |
6447 | Game theory misses out the motivation arising from the impersonal standpoint [Nagel] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
6446 | In ethics we abstract from our identity, but not from our humanity [Nagel] |
6477 | I can only universalise a maxim if everyone else could also universalise it [Nagel] |
6448 | A legitimate system is one accepted as both impartial and reasonably partial [Nagel] |
6478 | Democracy is opposed to equality, if the poor are not a majority [Nagel] |
16675 | Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another [William of Ockham] |