Quotes Flashcards
Clear ideas
‘present and accessible to the attentive mind’
Distinct ideas
‘sharply separated from other perceptions’
C&D rule
“Whatever I perceive clearly and distinctly I know to be true.”
The idea of god
‘more objective reality’
Causal adequacy principle
‘there must be at least as much reality in the efficient and total cause as in the effect of that cause’
Causal adequacy principle 2
“Something cannot come out of nothing, and also that what is more perfect cannot come from what is less perfect.”
Latin causal adequacy principle
“Ex nihilo nihil fit”
God and deception
Cannot be a deciever, since it is manifested by the natural light that all fraud and deception depend on some defect”
Kant and consequences
“The moral worth of an action does not depend upon the results expected from it.”
Humanity Formulation
“Act in such a way as to treat humanity, […] always as an end and never merely as a means.
MacIntyre CI
“The categorical imperative can condemn only poor liars, for good liars do not, in actual fact, contradict their own will.”
response to this is the other two formulations
