Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Lawrence B. Lombard, Richard Taylor and Crates (Theb)

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy

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Crates lived in poverty, and treated his whole life as a joke [Crates of Thebes, by Plutarch]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

1767	Everyone should study philosophy until they see all people in the same light [Crates of Thebes, by Diog. Laertius]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

9413	An event is a change in or to an object [Lombard, by Mumford]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory

5078	Kant and Mill both try to explain right and wrong, without a divine lawgiver [Taylor,R]

5067	Morality based on 'forbid', 'permit' and 'require' implies someone who does these things [Taylor,R]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness

5079	Pleasure can have a location, and be momentary, and come and go - but happiness can't [Taylor,R]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

5068	'Eudaimonia' means 'having a good demon', implying supreme good fortune [Taylor,R]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / b. Basis of virtue

5076	To Greeks it seemed obvious that the virtue of anything is the perfection of its function [Taylor,R]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

5077	The modern idea of obligation seems to have lost the idea of an obligation 'to' something [Taylor,R]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

5066	If we are made in God's image, pursuit of excellence is replaced by duty to obey God [Taylor,R]

5065	The ethics of duty requires a religious framework [Taylor,R]