Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Virtues of Authenticity'', 'reports' and 'talk'

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / a. Platonic Forms

17945

Forms are not a theory of universals, but an attempt to explain how predication is possible [Nehamas]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

17946

Only Tallness really is tall, and other inferior tall things merely participate in the tallness [Nehamas]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

17944

'Episteme' is better translated as 'understanding' than as 'knowledge' [Nehamas]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

5517	Individuals don't exist, but are conventional names for sets of elements [Buddha]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture

21432

Culture is the struggle to agree what is normal [Gibson,A]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7600	The Buddha believed the gods would eventually disappear, and Nirvana was much higher [Buddha, by Armstrong,K]

7601	Life is suffering, from which only compassion, gentleness, truth and sobriety can save us [Buddha]