Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Nicholas Rescher and Emmanuel Levinas

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6 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

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Process philosophy insists that processes are not inferior in being to substances [Rescher]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects

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In the military, persons are parts of parts of large units, but not parts of those large units [Rescher]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

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Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / a. Preconditions for ethics

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Levinas took 'first philosophy' to begin with seeing the vulnerable faces of others [Levinas, by Aho]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism

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Levinas says Marxism is the replacement of individualist ethics, by solidarity and sociality [Levinas, by Critchley]

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

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We only see points in motion, and thereby infer movement [Rescher]