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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Conversations, with Glyn Daly' and 'Nietzsche's System'

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11 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]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

20350

Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson]

20349

Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson]

20351

Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson]

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]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

5996	Critolaus redefined Aristotle's moral aim as fulfilment instead of happiness [Critolaus, by White,SA]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

20356

Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation

20366

A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson]