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All the ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Quaestiones de anima' and 'works'

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4 ideas

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / d. Form as unifier

16766	One thing needs a single thing to unite it; if there were two forms, something must unite them [Aquinas]
	Full Idea: One thing simpliciter is produced out of many actually existing things only if there is something uniting and tying them to each other. If Socrates were animal and rational by different forms, then to be united they would need something to make them one.
	From: Thomas Aquinas (Quaestiones de anima [1269], 11c), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 25.2
	A reaction: This is the reply to the idea that a single thing is just an interesting of many sortal essences. It presumes, of course, that a thing like a horse has something called 'unity'.

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

7903	The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna]
	Full Idea: The six perfections are of giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom.
	From: Nagarjuna (Mahaprajnaparamitashastra [c.120], 88)
	A reaction: What is 'morality', if giving is not part of it? I like patience and vigour being two of the virtues, which immediately implies an Aristotelian mean (which is always what is 'appropriate').

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / b. Heat

20645	Heat is a state of vibration, not a substance [Joule]
	Full Idea: We consider heat not as a substance but as a state of vibration.
	From: James Joule (works [1870]), quoted by Peter Watson - Convergence 01 'Nature's'
	A reaction: The puzzle is that giving accurate accounts of vibrations, heat and movement require a quantitative substance, energy. But all we have here is movement, and the denial of a substance. Energy is 'nature's currency system'.

20972	Joule showed that energy converts to heat, and heat to energy [Joule, by Papineau]
	Full Idea: James Joule established the equivalence of heat and mechanical energy, in the sense of showing that a specific amount of heat will always be produced by the expenditure of a given amount of energy, and vice versa.
	From: report of James Joule (works [1870]) by David Papineau - Thinking about Consciousness App 4.2
	A reaction: This was a major step towards the law of conservation of energy.