One must treat oneself in such a way as to cultivate habits facilitating the good treatment of others.
Latitude of action is proportional to latitude of cognition.
Bare succession cannot be the imaginative schema for causation, only succession composing a whole.
Human rights are refracted through humanitarian traditions and thereby receive their effective form.
society as a system of sharing-acts
argument as
(1) logical structure
(2) microsystem of plausible associations
(3) dialogical act
(4) symbolic representation of mind
music as
(1) mathematical system
(2) interweaving of sound
(3) social act
(4) symbolic expression of mind
insight
(1) multiplying of possibilities
(2) fitting to purpose
(3) structural consolidation
(4) live commitment
The dignity of each person is reflected in all, and all in each.
Nothing is part of our actual experience except by commonalities and invariances.
The Church has no preferential option for the stupid, and particularly not for the theologically stupid.
patriotism as a school of honor
the intercession of Mary as a secondary exemplar cause of the communion of saints
environmental conditions : material cause :: exemplar cause : formal cause
devout as taking-it-seriously vs. devout as ardent
The experience of one's body and of this being one's body are distinct. (cp. Falque)
plans reasonable in themselves and beneficial to all parties
Evidence of psychic powers on a large scale would be evidence of idealism, because in such a scenario, the world would work very much like the mind.
A possibility to think about: Prediction, properly speaking, is primarily something we do socially.
Supplementation principles are based on the assumption that the only difference between part and whole could be another part, i.e., that wholes do not require anything but their parts.
Think of proposition w/ terms as parts, or arguments with propositions as parts; in both cases, one needs something different from the parts to make the whole. One could imagine thinking, if one held that boundaries were not proper parts, that some wholes were proper parts (maximal proper part) + boundary. And so forth.
contiguity as resemblance of relations
elections as a way of organizing advice
legislation as problem-solving vs legislation as coercion
Much philosophical work consists of building flexible layers of approximation.
Hobbes's account & alliance-building in prison populations
The 'success' of an argument depends on three things: structure, mental habits, external support.
structural forms of theistic arguments
(1) God as First (Most, Best): first four ways, traditionary, kalam, Anselmian, Ideological
(2) God as condition for scope: Divine command, special miracle, Fifth way under some interpretations, design, anti-skepticism
(3) God as Communicator: visual language, revelatory experience
Human rights are operationalized by institutions and practices used to uphold them, which are generated and cultivated by and within humanitarian traditions.
Every scientific theory is a structuring of approximations.
A constitution is a maze built to block worst outcomes.
awkwardness as an aesthetic concept
A science of pure possibilities can only arise by abstraction from a science concerned with actualities.
actual experience -> indefinite possibility -> analysis of variations -> rigorously defined possibility
Never take seriously claims that such-and-such is something that benefits or harms "the economy" -- "the economy" can only mean specific people in such a claim; you need to know which people and how.
Justification of belief depends on objective features of what is believed, and not on what seems to me, which is a feature of me.
Given that 'seemings' can conflict, we often judge on something other than just how things seem to us.
basing something on its seeming to be P vs basing something on P, which seems to be
It is entirely consistent with our experience that whether two things compose a whole is sometimes vague.
What counts as being a part seems to be defined relative to a whole.
A problem with Husserl's Ideas 1.1.12 is that 'meaning in general' as a highest genus (in the realm of meanings) has problems analogous to 'being' as a highest genus (simpliciter).
Guilt, having a life of its own, must be trained.
Most of the time when we receive an apology, we want something other than apology itself.
"...I think it may be allowed as a maxim, that as is the God, so are his worshippers, if they serve him in earnest." Witherspoon
"Love is the most powerful means of begetting love."
"It is impossible that we can love purity, if we ourselves are impure; nay, it is even impossible that we can understand it."
"Despair of success cuts the sinews of diligence in every enterprize."
"Public instruction is, in a great measure, useless to those who are not prepared for it by more familiar teaching at home."
"Liberty is the nurse of riches, literature, and heroism."
"If there are natural rights of men, there are natural rights of nations."
"He who makes a people *virtuous*, makes them *invincible*."
strange the stars at night
in intermingled light
a traditionary argument from sacrifice; cp. Witherspoon: "Neither is it possible to account for the universal prevalence of sacrifices in any tolerable manner, but by supposing, that they were the remains of what had been taught in the ages immediately after the fall, by divine appointment."
We recognize the way things seem to be only by contrast with the way they seem not to be.
Since we cannot actually imagine a whole world, the subtraction argument ultimately boils down to 'Given an integer number n, one can have n-1, down to zero.' 'Contingent beings' or 'beings' is just posited as the unit, but otherwise does no work. I suppose one could take contingency to justify the assumption of subtractibility, but the contingent beings we know are not subtractible in this way: take one away, you get other beings that were being impeded by it, you lose a number of others, etc. Because contingent beings are by nature related to other things, it's impossible to say what removal would do without know what the being is and how it is related to other things.
LAw does not deal directly with attempt, consent, sound mind, etc., but with signs thereof.
Law by its nature must posit a normal user -- reasonable person, gentleman, common citizen, or what have you.
Morality doesn't eliminate thinking in terms of what is advantageous; it posits a higher advantage.
normative properties usually treated as factual properties: dangerous, safe, healthy, sick, healthy (used for other than an organism), toxic, rational, irrational, viable, nonviable, feasible, nonfeasible, broken, valid, invalid, sound, unsound, cheap, expensive, efficient, inefficient
familiar profile approaches to plausibility vs causal narrative approaches
There are none so censorious as the damned.
