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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Taking Rights Seriously' and 'Introduction to Aesthetics'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

1597	Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

3013	Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 6. Art as Institution

8114	The institutional theory says only a competent expert can decree something to be an art work [Dickie, by Gardner]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / b. Liberal individualism

23104

Dworkin believed we should promote equality, to increase autonomy [Dworkin, by Kekes]

25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality

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We can treat people as equals, or actually treat them equally [Dworkin, by Grayling]

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Treating people as equals is the one basic value of all plausible political theories [Dworkin, by Kymlicka]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances

1494	Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

1713	Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism

1742	Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius]