Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Letters to Fardella' and 'The Xunzi'

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4 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

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The soul is not a substance but a substantial form, the first active faculty [Leibniz]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / d. Teaching virtue

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Rituals escape natural chaos, and benefit everyone, by reshaping our motivations [Xunzi (Xun Kuang), by Norden]

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Rituals don't arise from human nature; they are the deliberate creations of a sage [Xunzi (Xun Kuang)]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

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Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche]