Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Prolegomena to Ethics' and 'Hymn to Perfect Wisdom'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

7911	Theory vanishes when one has obtained wisdom [Rahulabhadra]

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 / 2. Source of Ethics / a. Idealistic ethics

23035

The good life aims at perfections, or absolute laws, or what is absolutely desirable [Green,TH]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / c. Liberal equality

23037

People are improved by egalitarian institutions and habits [Green,TH]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / e. Liberal community

23043

All talk of the progress of a nation must reduce to the progress of its individual members [Green,TH]