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All the ideas for 'Lectures on the History of Philosophy', 'Ancient Philosophy: very short introduction' and 'Frege's Theory of Numbers'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy

12036	Xenophanes began the concern with knowledge [Annas]
	Full Idea: Xenophanes begins a long concern with knowledge and its grounds.
	From: Julia Annas (Ancient Philosophy: very short introduction [2000], Intro)
	A reaction: Having that on his cv ought to make Xenophanes more famous than he is.

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

12046	Plato was the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas [Annas]
	Full Idea: In the ancient world Plato was seen as a pivotal figure, the first philosopher who was concerned to systematize his ideas.
	From: Julia Annas (Ancient Philosophy: very short introduction [2000], Ch.6)

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

21757	Philosophy is the conceptual essence of the shape of history [Hegel]
	Full Idea: Philosophy is the supreme blossom - the concept - of the entire shape of history, the consciousness and the spiritual essence of the whole situation, the spirit of the age as the spirit present and aware of itself in thought.
	From: Georg W.F.Hegel (Lectures on the History of Philosophy [1830], p.25), quoted by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 01
	A reaction: This sees philosophy as intrinsically historical, which is a founding idea for 'continental' philosophy. Analysis is tied to science, in which the history of the subject is seen as irrelevant to its truth. Does this mean we can't go back to Aristotle?

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

17447	Parsons says counting is tagging as first, second, third..., and converting the last to a cardinal [Parsons,C, by Heck]
	Full Idea: In Parsons's demonstrative model of counting, '1' means the first, and counting says 'the first, the second, the third', where one is supposed to 'tag' each object exactly once, and report how many by converting the last ordinal into a cardinal.
	From: report of Charles Parsons (Frege's Theory of Numbers [1965]) by Richard G. Heck - Cardinality, Counting and Equinumerosity 3
	A reaction: This sounds good. Counting seems to rely on that fact that numbers can be both ordinals and cardinals. You don't 'convert' at the end, though, because all the way you mean 'this cardinality in this order'.

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

12037	Euripides's Medea is a key case of reason versus the passions [Annas]
	Full Idea: Euripides's Medea has remained a key case for discussion of reason and the passions.
	From: Julia Annas (Ancient Philosophy: very short introduction [2000], Ch.1)

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue

12040	Virtue is a kind of understanding of moral value [Annas]
	Full Idea: There is a widespread view in ancient ethics that virtue is a kind of understanding of moral value.
	From: Julia Annas (Ancient Philosophy: very short introduction [2000], Ch.3)
	A reaction: In Aristotle's case, this coincides with his apparent view that 'understanding' is the aim of all areas of human thought. See Idea 12038.