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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', '75: Is 'Live Unknown' a Wise Precept?' and 'The Idea of Overlapping Consensus'

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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]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

5959	Some philosophers say the soul is light [Plutarch]

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]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / b. Against communitarianism

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In a pluralist society we can't expect a community united around one conception of the good [Rawls]