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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Internal and External Reasons' and 'Oldest System Prog. of German Idealism'

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5 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

7083	Highest reason is aesthetic, and truth and good are subordinate to beauty [Hegel]

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

18933

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

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

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

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

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes

9284	Reasons are 'internal' if they give a person a motive to act, but 'external' otherwise [Williams,B]