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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'fragments/reports' and 'The Communist Manifesto'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

291	Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism

5303	For the proletariate, law, morality and religion are just expressions of bourgeois interests [Marx/Engels]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

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Bourgeois interests create our morality, law and religion [Marx/Engels]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage

293	Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism

5302	Modern governments are just bourgeois management committees [Marx/Engels]

5304	Communism aims to abolish not all property, but bourgeois property [Marx/Engels]

5307	Many of the bourgeois rights grievances are a form of self-defence [Marx/Engels]

25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle

5306	The free development of each should be the condition for the free development of all [Marx/Engels]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

5305	Communists want to rescue education from the ruling class [Marx/Engels]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history

5301	The history of all existing society is the history of class struggles [Marx/Engels]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 1. Biology

651	Eurytus showed that numbers underlie things by making pictures of creatures out of pebbles [Eurytus, by Aristotle]