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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Being and Nothingness' and 'Ethics of the Concern for Self as Freedom'

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21 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined
7426 Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault]
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy
7423 Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked [Foucault]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos
7420 When logos controls our desires, we have actually become the logos [Foucault]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)
22227 For Sartre there is only being for-itself, or being in-itself (which is beyond experience) [Sartre, by Daigle]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism
20743 Appearances do not hide the essence; appearances are the essence [Sartre]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism
7424 Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration [Foucault]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / b. Essence of consciousness
6151 Sartre says consciousness is just directedness towards external objects [Sartre, by Rowlands]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct
7422 A subject is a form which can change, in (say) political or sexual situations [Foucault]
18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content
6164 Sartre rejects mental content, and the idea that the mind has hidden inner features [Sartre, by Rowlands]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics
7419 Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
7074 Man is a useless passion [Sartre]
6687 Man is the desire to be God [Sartre]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
22228 Sartre's freedom is not for whimsical action, but taking responsibility for our own values [Sartre, by Daigle]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
22233 Love is the demand to be loved [Sartre]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst
20755 Fear concerns the world, but 'anguish' comes from confronting my self [Sartre]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self
20760 Sincerity is not authenticity, because it only commits to one particular identity [Sartre, by Aho]
22231 We flee from the anguish of freedom by seeing ourselves objectively, as determined [Sartre]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 1. Social Power
7425 The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault]
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
7418 The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed [Foucault]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature
1748 Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
5989 Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]