Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Bonaventura, Samuel Scheffler and John Cottingham

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

16643

Accidents always remain suited to a subject [Bonaventura]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

4304	Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

16696

Successive things reduce to permanent things [Bonaventura]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

4303	The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason

4316	Either all action is rational, or reason dominates, or reason is only concerned with means [Cottingham]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

22457

If the aim is good outcomes, why are killings worse than deaths? [Scheffler, by Foot]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

4306	For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham]