Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Cleanthes, J.B. Watson and Michael Bratman

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 4. Divisions of Philosophy

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Six parts: dialectic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, theology [Cleanthes, by Diog. Laertius]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 8. Dualism of Mind Critique

6028	Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

20831

The soul suffers when the body hurts, creates redness from shame, and pallor from fear [Cleanthes]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

20034

Intentions must be mutually consistent, affirm appropriate means, and fit the agent's beliefs [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

20033

Intentions are normative, requiring commitment and further plans [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / b. Types of intention

20026

Intention is either the aim of an action, or a long-term constraint on what we can do [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / c. Reducing intentions

20032

Bratman rejected reducing intentions to belief-desire, because they motivate, and have their own standards [Bratman, by Wilson/Schpall]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

7517	I could take a healthy infant and train it up to be any type of specialist I choose [Watson,JB]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof

5993	The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman]