Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'On Hippocrates and Plato' and 'Human Society in Ethics and Politics'

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4 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / d. Location of mind
Galen showed by experiment that the brain controls the body [Galen, by Hankinson]
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]
Each part of the soul has its virtue - pleasure for appetite, success for competition, and rectitude for reason [Galen]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question
If God's decrees are good, and this is not a mere tautology, then goodness is separate from God's decrees [Russell]