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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'City of God' and 'Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

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Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito

3912	I must exist in order to be mistaken, so that even if I am mistaken, I can't be wrong about my own existence [Augustine]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 2. Interactionism

6683	The contact of spirit and body is utterly amazing, and incomprehensible [Augustine]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

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Moral right is linked to validity and truth, so morality is a matter of knowledge, not an expression of values [Habermas, by Finlayson]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

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Move from individual willing of a general law, to willing norms agreed with other people [Habermas]