the quotable bowler hat
Sunday 13 May 2007
I am a bit concerned with how little work I am doing, so I have decided to mix blogging with revision. Here are all the quotes I can remember:
MILL
the nature and limits of power that can can be legitimately exercised over the individual
the only purpose for which power can rightfully be exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant
peculiar evil
oppress part of their number
fully, frequently and fearlessly discussed it will be held as dead dogma, and not the living truth
grounded in the permanent interests of man as a progressive being
one of the principle ingredients of human happiness
in other-regarding acts, the inidividual is accountable, and may be subject to social or legal punishment
unless it is good for the extreme, it is not good for any case
society can and does execute its own mandates
the moral and mental powers, like the muscular, ar eonly improved by being used
better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied
permenent possibilities of sensation
infirmity of charachter
WILFRID SELLARS
it goes against the idea that we come to know general facts...only after we have come to know, by general observation, a number of paticular facts
WITTGENSTEIN
form of life
doubt would seem to drag everything with it, and plunge it into chaos
DANCY
there is a red rose in the dark
in general, if we find ourselves scrutinising something we believe, we retain that belief unless we find something against it, on the gorounds that it is already a belief
WOLLHEIM
function...to discriminate within the judgements and eliminate some in favour of others
G.E. MOORE
two human hands exist at this moment
MACKIE
by selective attention, [I] ignore all the properties they have, but this one they share
BERKELEY
esse est precipi
I cannot by any effort of thought concieve the abstract idea
LOCKE
where there is no law there is no freedom
no man can, if he would, conform his Faith to the Dictates of another
tabula rasa
a thinking, intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self as it self, the same thinking thing in different times and places
THOMAS JEFFERSON
it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it
BENTHAM
two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure,
nonsense on stilts
ALAN RYAN
to say that Socrates prefers his way of life, even though he is constantly dissatisfied is to say that he thinks it is better, not that he thinks it more pleasant
KANT
act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will it should become a universal law
act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end
who wills the ends...also wills the means
every rational being must always act as if he were through his maxims, always a law-making member of the universal kingdom of ends
STUART HAMPSHIRE
utilitarian thinking is a kind of moral esperanto
BERTRAM RUSSELL
philosophers, for the main part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars
'I simply do not like staying in good hotels' is an intelligible thing to say
DAVID HUME
find a sentiment of disapprobation...it lies in yourself, not in the object
C.L. STEVENSON
immediate aura of feeling which hovers about a word
PRITCHARD
is immediate in the same way in which a mathematical apprehension is immediate
R.M HARE
the acts of supremely virtuous men as an example, but only in so far as the traits of charachter which they exemplify fit into a coherent ideal we find ourselves able to pursue
PETER WINCH
I see no reason why a contemporary history scholar might feel more at home in the world of medieval alchemy than in that of twentieth century football
NIETZSCHE
god is dead
they are rid of the Christian God, but believe all the more they must hold onto Christian morality
what sort of monster of falsity must modern man nonetheless be to have no shame in being called a Christian?
SINGER
even an abortion late in a pregnancy for the most trivial of reasons is hard to condemn
CARRUTHERS
nobody would seriously maintain that dogs, cats, sheep, cattle, pigs or chickens consciously think things to themselves
it ought to be impossible to feel sympathy for animals
P.J. TAYLOR
either a man possesses it and is possessed by it or he does not, and there is no more to be said
IRIS MURDOCH
why not consider red as a concept infintely to be learned, as an individualaspect of love
JULIA ANNAS
if knowledge requires grasp of Forms, they must be applicable to experience
HOLLAND
evil is the unlimited range of points lying outside the circle of action drawn by the geometry of goodness
HELL YES!
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