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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'Subjective and Objective' and 'works'

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10 ideas

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

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

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems

3296	Sense-data are a false objectification of what is essentially subjective [Nagel]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / a. Mind

3295	Inner v outer brings astonishment that we are a particular person [Nagel]

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self

3293	If you assert that we have an ego, you can still ask if that future ego will be me [Nagel]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will

3292	The most difficult problem of free will is saying what the problem is [Nagel]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

20949

Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder]

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

7669	We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin]

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

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

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

3294	As far as possible we should become instruments to realise what is best from an eternal point of view [Nagel]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism

7668	Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin]