Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Absurd' and 'Ethics without Principles'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

3269	If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry

13007

Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 8. Social Justification

3270	Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value

18681

The base for values has grounds, catalysts and intensifiers [Dancy,J, by Orsi]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism

3268	If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel]