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All the ideas for 'reports', 'Reply to First Objections' and 'Human Nature'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour

6211	Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind

16634

I can't be unaware of anything which is in me [Descartes]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

6213	A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd [Hobbes]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

6208	Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head [Hobbes]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

6209	There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness

6210	Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 5. Existence-Essence

3635	Essence must be known before we discuss existence [Descartes]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality

6212	Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / a. Cosmological Proof

3634	We can't prove a first cause from our inability to grasp infinity [Descartes]