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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'Philosophy' and 'Letters to Foucher'

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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]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

13095

Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 7. Knowledge First

23888

Knowledge is beyond question, as an unavoidable component of thinking [Weil]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 1. Defining Art

23887

Art (like philosophy) establishes a relation between world and self, and between oneself and others [Weil]

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

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

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

2117	The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz]