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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'Prolegomena to Ethics' and 'Preface to 'De Revolutionibus''

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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]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / e. Lawlike explanations

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Facts should be deducible from the theory and initial conditions, and prefer the simpler theory [Osiander, by Harré/Madden]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / a. Idealistic ethics

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The good life aims at perfections, or absolute laws, or what is absolutely desirable [Green,TH]

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 / 6. Liberalism / c. Liberal equality

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People are improved by egalitarian institutions and habits [Green,TH]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / e. Liberal community

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All talk of the progress of a nation must reduce to the progress of its individual members [Green,TH]