Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Leucippus, Aeschylus and John Richardson

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

20350

Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson]

20349

Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson]

20351

Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

20356

Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson]

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / b. Rule of law

7810	The 'Eumenides' of Aeschylus shows blood feuds replaced by law [Aeschylus, by Grayling]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation

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A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson]