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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Cruelty' and 'The Fragmentation of Value'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

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Montaigne was the founding father of liberalism [Montaigne, by Gopnik]

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 / 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]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory

3284	There is no one theory of how to act (or what to believe) [Nagel]