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All the ideas for 'Internalism Exposed', 'On the spiritual perfection of life' and 'Manuscript remains'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

21916

Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

22102

Arguing with opponents uncovers truths, and restrains falsehoods [Aquinas]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism

6871	We can't only believe things if we are currently conscious of their justification - there are too many [Goldman]

6872	Internalism must cover Forgotten Evidence, which is no longer retrievable from memory [Goldman]

6874	Internal justification needs both mental stability and time to compute coherence [Goldman]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique

6873	Coherent justification seems to require retrieving all our beliefs simultaneously [Goldman]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 3. Reliabilism / a. Reliable knowledge

6875	Reliability involves truth, and truth is external [Goldman]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

21924

As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

21915

To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer]