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'Theaetetus', 'The Metaphysics within Physics' and 'Letters from a Stoic'
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12 ideas
1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
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Wisdom does not lie in books, and unread people can also become wise [Seneca]
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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People
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Wise people escape necessity by willing it [Seneca]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly
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Philosophy aims at happiness [Seneca]
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What philosophy offers humanity is guidance [Seneca]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
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Philosophers are always switching direction to something more interesting [Plato]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science
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The metaphysics of nature should focus on physics [Maudlin]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual
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Kant survives in seeing metaphysics as analysing our conceptual system, which is a priori [Maudlin]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics
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Wide metaphysical possibility may reduce metaphysics to analysis of fantasies [Maudlin]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 2. Analysis by Division
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Understanding mainly involves knowing the elements, not their combinations [Plato]
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Either a syllable is its letters (making parts as knowable as whole) or it isn't (meaning it has no parts) [Plato]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 3. Analysis of Preconditions
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That something is a necessary condition of something else doesn't mean it caused it [Seneca]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis
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Even philosophers have got bogged down in analysing tiny bits of language [Seneca]
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