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All the ideas for 'Saundaranandakavya', 'An Introduction to Hegel' and 'Event Causation: counterfactual analysis'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

7910	Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

8439	Maybe each event has only one possible causal history [Bennett]

8440	Maybe an event's time of occurrence is essential to it [Bennett]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics

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The moral will is self-determining, but the ethical will is met in society [Houlgate]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

8441	Delaying a fire doesn't cause it, but hastening it might [Bennett]

8436	Either cause and effect are subsumed under a conditional because of properties, or it is counterfactual [Bennett]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause

8435	Causes are between events ('the explosion') or between facts/states of affairs ('a bomb dropped') [Bennett]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

8437	The full counterfactual story asserts a series of events, because counterfactuals are not transitive [Bennett]

8438	A counterfactual about an event implies something about the event's essence [Bennett]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7909	The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / d. Heaven

7908	At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha]