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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to the Lord Marquis of Newcastle' and 'Modern Moral Philosophy'

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6 ideas

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
2385 If a man suddenly develops an intention of doing something, the cause is out of his control, not in his will [Hobbes]
2384 Those actions that follow immediately the last appetite are voluntary [Hobbes]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
8070 It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology
8065 'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe]
8069 Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances
1497 For Anaximenes nature is air, which takes different forms by rarefaction and condensation [Anaximenes, by Simplicius]