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All the ideas for 'A Short History of Ethics', 'fragments/reports' and 'Occasions of Identity'

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17 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

8013	In the Reformation, morality became unconditional but irrational, individually autonomous, and secular [MacIntyre]

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

8021	The Levellers and the Diggers mark a turning point in the history of morality [MacIntyre]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail

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A CAR and its major PART can become identical, yet seem to have different properties [Gallois]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

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Gallois hoped to clarify identity through time, but seems to make talk of it impossible [Hawley on Gallois]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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Gallois is committed to identity with respect to times, and denial of simple identity [Gallois, by Sider]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

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Occasional Identity: two objects can be identical at one time, and different at others [Gallois, by Hawley]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

8006	When Aristotle speaks of soul he means something like personality [MacIntyre]

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

1757	The Electra: she knows this man, but not that he is her brother [Eucleides, by Diog. Laertius]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

8002	Sophists don't distinguish a person outside one social order from someone outside all order [MacIntyre]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value

8012	The value/fact logical gulf is misleading, because social facts involve values [MacIntyre]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good

3028	The chief good is unity, sometimes seen as prudence, or God, or intellect [Eucleides]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

8005	'Happiness' is a bad translation of 'eudaimonia', which includes both behaving and faring well [MacIntyre]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice

8001	'Dikaiosune' is justice, but also fairness and personal integrity [MacIntyre]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

8023	My duties depend on my identity, which depends on my social relations [MacIntyre]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / a. Natural freedom

8022	I am naturally free if I am not tied to anyone by a contract [MacIntyre]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

8031	Fans of natural rights or laws can't agree on what the actual rights or laws are [MacIntyre]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 5. Bible

8008	The Bible is a story about God in which humans are incidental characters [MacIntyre]