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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Value of Science' and 'On Cruelty'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

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Montaigne was the founding father of liberalism [Montaigne, by Gopnik]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

20768

Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / f. The Mean

3049	The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

3549	Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

15877

The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré]