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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Ancient Philosophy: very short introduction' and 'Episteme and Logos in later Plato'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy

12036

Xenophanes began the concern with knowledge [Annas]

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy

12046

Plato was the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas [Annas]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos

17950

The logos enables us to track one particular among a network of objects [Nehamas]

17951

A logos may be short, but it contains reference to the whole domain of the object [Nehamas]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

12037

Euripides's Medea is a key case of reason versus the passions [Annas]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue

12040

Virtue is a kind of understanding of moral value [Annas]

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]