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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Thought and Responsibility' and 'Anarchical Fallacies: on the Declaration of Rights'

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5 ideas

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility

20166

A man is a responsible agent to the extent he has an intention, and knows what he is doing [Hampshire]

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

20977

Natural rights are nonsense, and unspecified natural rights is nonsense on stilts [Bentham]

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

21003

Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary [Bentham]

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]