Philosophy Made Slightly Less Difficult

Act always so as to treat humanity—whether in your own person or that of any other—always as an end and never merely as means.

deontology says (most) acts themselves have intrinsic moral qualities, and it is our duty to do that which is moral.

What if they didn’t think it was wrong?” “How can it be wrong for them if they don’t think it’s wrong?

According to essentialism, some things have essential and accidental properties. A thing’s essential properties are those such that if the thing in question loses them, it ceases to exist.

What is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

may find ourselves having more confidence in the conclusion of an inductive argument than in the conclusion of a valid deductive argument.

absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Philosophy is thinking critically about questions that matter.