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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Postscripts on supervenience' and 'Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy

21463

Hamann, Herder and Jacobi were key opponents of the Enlightenment [Gardner]

21459

Kant halted rationalism, and forced empiricists to worry about foundations [Gardner]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

21460

Only Kant and Hegel have united nature, morals, politics, aesthetics and religion [Gardner]

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

20768

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

2. Reason / E. Argument / 2. Transcendental Argument

21443

Transcendental proofs derive necessities from possibilities (e.g. possibility of experiencing objects) [Gardner]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

21444

Modern geoemtry is either 'pure' (and formal), or 'applied' (and a posteriori) [Gardner]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

13745

Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence [Kim]

13746

Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation [Kim]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads

21453

Leibnizian monads qualify as Kantian noumena [Gardner]

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]