Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'De Cive' and 'The Actual and the Possible'

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5 ideas

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

20768

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

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

12468

A state of affairs is only possible if there has been an actual substance to initiate it [Pruss]

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 / c. Combatants

23609

I act justly if I follow my Prince in an apparently unjust war, and refusing to fight would be injustice [Hobbes]