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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action' and 'Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher'

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5 ideas

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

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Moral right is linked to validity and truth, so morality is a matter of knowledge, not an expression of values [Habermas, by Finlayson]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

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Move from individual willing of a general law, to willing norms agreed with other people [Habermas]

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / b. Retribution for crime

1658	In early Greece the word for punishment was also the word for vengeance [Vlastos]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]