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All the ideas for 'works', 'Mathematics, Science and Language' and 'The Roots of Romanticism'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

7662	Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics

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Mathematics is a mental activity which does not use language [Brouwer, by Bostock]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics

18118

Brouwer regards the application of mathematics to the world as somehow 'wicked' [Brouwer, by Bostock]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

7665	Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin]

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]

7676	If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

7664	The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism

7677	Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 2. Judaism

7663	Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin]