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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Moral Realism and Moral Dilemma' and 'The Really Hard Problem'

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10 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind

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Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind

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Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value

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Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism

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For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

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We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / j. Unity of virtue

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Maybe virtues conflict with each other, if some virtue needs a vice for its achievement [Foot]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism

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Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan]

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]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

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Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan]