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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'Intro to 'Philosophical Essays'' and 'Dialectic of Enlightenment'

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6 ideas

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

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

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

9786	Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard [Cartwright,R]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 5. Critical Theory

15663

Adorno and Horkheimer subjected the Enlightenment to 'critical theory' analysis [Adorno/Horkheimer, by Finlayson]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

9784	A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system [Cartwright,R]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

20572

De Sade said it was impossible to rationally argue against murder [Adorno/Horkheimer]

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

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