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All the ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'The Mozi' and 'works'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

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Only natural kinds and their members have real essences [Suárez, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

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Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

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Mohists desire wealth, population and social order as the best consequences [Mozi, by Norden]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 2. Golden Rule

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If people regarded other states as they did their own, they would never attack them [Mozi]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

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Mozi condemns partiality, which is the cause of all the great harms in the world [Mozi]

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Those who are against impartiality still prefer impartial protectors [Mozi]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

7563	The old 'influx' view of causation says it is a flow of accidental properties from A to B [Suárez, by Jolley]