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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Quine on Quantifying In' and 'The Ethics'

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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act
4309 Spinoza argues that in reality the will and the intellect are 'one and the same' [Spinoza, by Cottingham]
4838 Claiming that actions depend on the will is meaningless; no one knows what the will is [Spinoza]
20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will
20850 Passions are judgements; greed thinks money is honorable, and likewise drinking and lust [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 1. Acting on Desires
20305 Whenever we act, then desire is our very essence [Spinoza]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 4. Responsibility for Actions
21868 We love or hate people more strongly because we think they are free [Spinoza]
17202 We are the source of an action if only our nature can explain the action [Spinoza]
21865 We act when it follows from our nature, and is understood in that way [Spinoza]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / c. Omissions
20869 The highest degree of morality performs all that is appropriate, omitting nothing [Chrysippus]