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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Medical Experience' and 'That Politics may be reduced to a Science'

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6 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / d. Location of mind
5987 Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Alcmaeon, by Staden, von]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / f. The Mean
7453 Galen's medicine followed the mean; each illness was balanced by opposite treatment [Galen, by Hacking]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / d. Friendship
21093 Friendship without community spirit misses out on the main part of virtue [Hume]
24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 3. Constitutions
21091 It would be absurd if even a free constitution did not impose restraints, for the public good [Hume]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / d. Elites
21092 Nobility either share in the power of the whole, or they compose the power of the whole [Hume]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul
24043 Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle]