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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Justice as fairness: Political not Metaphysical' and 'Is There a Marxist Doctrine?'

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

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

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

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Most people won't question an idea's truth if they depend on it [Weil]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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Weakness of will is the inadequacy of the original impetus to carry through the action [Weil]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

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In a violent moral disagreement, it can't be that both sides are just following social morality [Weil]

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]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 4. Unfairness

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The maximisation of happiness must be done fairly [Rawls, by Smart]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / b. Justice in war

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When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil]