Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Norman Malcolm, Menedemus and Crates (Theb)

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5 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]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 4. Other Minds / d. Other minds by analogy

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If my conception of pain derives from me, it is a contradiction to speak of another's pain [Malcolm]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof

1422	God's existence is either necessary or impossible, and no one has shown that the concept of God is contradictory [Malcolm]