Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Jeremiah, Richard Price and John Richardson

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

20350

Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson]

20349

Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson]

20351

Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

7258	The forefather of modern intuitionism is Richard Price [Price,R, by Dancy,J]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

20356

Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 1. Purpose of a State

7346	Jeremiah implied a link between weakness and goodness, and the evil of the state [Jeremiah, by Johnson,P]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation

20366

A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

22920

Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord [Jeremiah]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

22089

Am I a God afar off, and not a God close at hand? [Jeremiah]