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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Tragic Sense of Life' and 'The General Theory of Employment'

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5 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 / 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]

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

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Maybe humans are distinguished from other animals by feelings, rather than reason [Unamuno]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / b. Liberal individualism

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Laissez-faire individualism doesn't work, especially in troublesome times [Keynes]