18 ideas
7662 | Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin] |
2181 | It is an absurd Kantian idea that at the limit rationality and freedom coincide [Williams,B] |
2176 | There is only a problem of free will if you think the notion of 'voluntary' can be metaphysically deepened [Williams,B] |
4317 | We judge weakness of will by an assessment after the event is concluded [Williams,B, by Cottingham] |
7665 | Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin] |
2174 | Responsibility involves cause, intention, state of mind, and response after the event [Williams,B] |
2178 | In bad actions, guilt points towards victims, and shame to the agent [Williams,B] |
2169 | Greek moral progress came when 'virtue' was freed from social status [Williams,B] |
7676 | If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin] |
7664 | The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin] |
2172 | The modern idea of duty is unknown in archaic Greece [Williams,B] |
2180 | If reason cannot lead people to good, we must hope they have an internal voice [Williams,B] |
2179 | If the moral self is seen as characterless, then other people have a very limited role in our moral lives [Williams,B] |
7677 | Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin] |
7663 | Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin] |
16713 | Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian] |
6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |
2175 | There is a problem of evil only if you expect the world to be good [Williams,B] |