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All the ideas for 'works', 'The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science' and 'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy
The Pre-Socratics are not simple naturalists, because they do not always 'leave the gods out' [Leroi]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues
Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford]