Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts

Monday, 1 April 2019

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Pleuragloss: A colour only immortal beings can see and is undetected by human eyes. It is the colour of when a soldier comes home from war and sees his dog for the first time.


Moral Particularism says there are no fixed rules that work in every situation - (Jonathan Dancy)


I am a Moral Particularist. There's no absolute rule. You have to choose your actions based on the particular situation - (Eleanor Shellstrop)


Moral dessert is the concept that if you act with virtue, you deserve a reward - (Michael, The Architect)


For Aristotle, virtue is practical. Goodness isn't something that a person inherently has. It's something that she achieves through her actions.


Consequentialism: the basis for judgement about whether something is right or wrong stems from the consequences of that action. 


Deontology: the school of thought  that there are strict rules and duties that everyone must adhere to in a functioning society. Being ethical is simply identifying and obeying those duties and following those rules.


The true meaning of life: the actual ethical system that you should all follow is nihilism. The world is empty. There is no point to anything and you're just gonna die. So do whatever - (Chidi Anagonye).


Determinism is the theory that we have no control over our own actions. Everything we do happens because of some external force which exists outside of our control.


A happiness pump is someone who is obsessed with maximising the overall good at his or her expense.  It is a criticism of utilitarianism.


Tolstoy: There is only one time that is important. Now. It is the only time when we have any power.



* Learnt from The Good Place *

Thursday, 1 August 2013

Review of Applied Ethics

"Kafka's Motorbike: A searing vision of the wounds our century has inflicted on traditional masculinity. It's positively Vonnegut-esque" - Bridget Jones.

Spinoza's Ethics - Proposition: "Self contentment can arise from reason, and only that contentment which arises from reason is the highest that can exist".

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Can The Subaltern Speak?: "White men saving brown women from brown men".

Joseph Stalin: "Socialism was Soviet Power plus the electrification of the whole country" - (Stalin's report to the Congress of Soviets in December 1920).

Ralph Waldo Emerson: ‎"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail".

Jacques Derrida: "There is nothing outside the text".

Claude Levi-Strauss: "The 'savage' mind has the same structures as the 'civilized' mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere".

Sigmund Freud: The Oedipus complex and the castration complex.

Norbert Elias: Social existence and human behaviour.

Melanie Klein: The first person to use traditional psychoanalysis with young children.

Emile Durkheim: Institutionalized sociology.

Karl Marx: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles".

Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Leviticus 11: "Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is wholly cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat".



* Title of post inspired by Isabel Dalhousie*