I had the idea that there were secret laws of the universe that could explain the baffling human reality around me, and that philosophers maybe had t….

You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you don't find many on….

The (atomic) soul is mortal, and the best life is the one with the least pain and the most pleasure..

Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory, to the pur….

In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the….

There's nothing a priori good about equality. One person has three televisions, the other has two, so what?.

Epicurus was in favour of friendly sex but not of grand passions or marriage and children, viewing them as sources of trouble and vexation..

Epicurus thought of justice as an agreement to prevent people harming and being harmed..

A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's exp….

There are people who organise the contest, winners, losers, and people who benefit from the contest taking place..

Epicurus thought that friendship and conviviality, which require present attention rather than being in an alcoholic stupor, as well as trying to und….

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms..

Maybe we will get to this point and reach a decision one way or the other with 'Human cloning is acceptable,' but I doubt that it is ever going to ha….

Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw through some ….

People should be able to develop their abilities and interests and have access to such goods as friendship, artistry, and nature and a political voic….

In the old systems, hierarchies emanate power from above to below through forms of line management and are ideologically supported by cosmologies and….

Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could their mere arra….

People's wants are not fixed; they generally want what others in their chosen comparison class appear to be enjoying and what advertising presents to….

Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In the 17t….

There is no single test or formula for producing moral progress anymore than there is for generating scientific truths. It is a process involving the….

People formerly seemed unable to evaluate a woman's c.v. or to accept a range of personal and communicative styles from the exuberant and confident t….