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All the ideas for 'A Specimen of Discoveries', 'Persons, Character and Morality' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason
5035 The two basics of reasoning are contradiction and sufficient reason [Leibniz]
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 5. Parallelism
5038 Assume that mind and body follow their own laws, but God has harmonised them [Leibniz]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
6853 Consequentialism wrongly assumes a clear line between an act and its consequences [Crisp,R]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
23279 It is important that a person can change their character, and not just be successive 'selves' [Williams,B]
23280 Kantians have an poor account of individuals, and insist on impartiality, because they ignore character [Williams,B]
23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism
23278 For utilitarians states of affairs are what have value, not matter who produced them [Williams,B]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 4. Ecology
6854 Does the environment have value in itself? [Crisp,R]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / b. Human Evil
5037 God doesn't decide that Adam will sin, but that sinful Adam's existence is to be preferred [Leibniz]