Nagel, Thomas

"Personal identity is crucial to understanding death's badness."

"Moral realism faces serious philosophical difficulties."

"Ethics cannot be wholly subjective or relativistic."

"Reason must play a role in moral judgment."

"Justice requires transcending our narrow self-interest."

"Moral luck reveals the contingency of ethical assessment."

"We are responsible for things beyond our control."

"Luck affects the moral evaluation of our actions deeply."

"Consequentialism cannot capture all moral considerations."

"Intentions matter morally in ways consequences alone cannot explain."

"The universe is fundamentally mysterious to human understanding."

"Science cannot answer the most important questions we ask."

"Knowledge of what it is like requires direct experience."

"Qualia cannot be explained in purely physical terms."

"The explanatory gap between physics and phenomenology is real."

"Reduction of mind to brain seems perpetually incomplete."

"Every fact has a perspective from which it appears."

"Objective truth exists but may be inaccessible to us."

"The impersonal standpoint is an achievement, not a given."

"We must learn to value things from outside our own perspective."

"Emotions are sometimes more truthful than reason."

"Love requires acknowledging another as fundamentally separate."

"Relationships reveal the limits of self-knowledge."

"The other person's reality is as vivid as our own."

"Egoism is both false and impossible as a complete worldview."

"We can never fully escape concern for ourselves."

"Altruism and self-interest are not necessarily opposed."

"The pursuit of happiness is different from the pursuit of meaning."

"Pleasure is not the same as flourishing."

"Success means different things to different people."