Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Bryan van Norden, Beth Lord and James Rachels

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8 ideas

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

23392

The Dao (Way) first means the road, and comes to mean the right way to live [Norden]

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

21855

Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

23408

The hermeneutic circle is either within the text, or between text and biased reader [Norden]

23407

Heremeneutics is either 'faith' (examining truth) or 'suspicion' (looking for hidden motives) [Norden]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving

21866

Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 2. Euthanasia

4053	If it is desirable that a given patient die, then moral objections to killing them do not apply [Rachels]

4052	It has become normal to consider passive euthanasia while condemning active euthanasia [Rachels]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / c. Moral Argument

20713

God must be fit for worship, but worship abandons morally autonomy, but there is no God [Rachels, by Davies,B]