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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'De Re Aedificatoria' and 'Among the Dead Cities'

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6 ideas

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
20768 Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / b. Double Effect
7293 It is legitimate to do harm if it is the unintended side-effect of an effort to achieve a good [Grayling]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty
18555 The beautiful is that from which nothing can be subtracted and to which nothing can be added [Alberti]
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]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / a. Just wars
7292 War must also have a good chance of success, and be waged with moderation [Grayling]