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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Scepticism' and 'Conversations, with Glyn Daly'

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9 ideas

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

9777	Kant was the first philosopher [Zizek]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

9778	There is no dialogue in philosophy [Zizek]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / b. Philosophy as transcendent

9779	Philosophy is transcendental questioning (not supporting science or constructing ontology) [Zizek]

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

20768

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

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / d. Purpose of consciousness

9780	Consciousness is a malfunction of evolution [Zizek]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism

9781	Tolerance and love are strategies to avoid encountering our neighbours [Zizek]

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]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

20365

We only see points in motion, and thereby infer movement [Rescher]