Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Of Grammatology' and 'Emile: treatise on education'

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6 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]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 9. Ambiguity

21929

Derrida focuses on ambiguity, but talks of 'dissemination', not traditional multiple meanings [Derrida]

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]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self

20759

Feelings are prior to intelligence; we should be content to live with our simplest feelings [Rousseau]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 4. Citizenship

19854

We all owe labour in return for our keep, and every idle citizen is a thief [Rousseau]