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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Dialectic of Enlightenment' and 'That Politics may be reduced to a Science'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 5. Critical Theory

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Adorno and Horkheimer subjected the Enlightenment to 'critical theory' analysis [Adorno/Horkheimer, by Finlayson]

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

20572

De Sade said it was impossible to rationally argue against murder [Adorno/Horkheimer]

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]

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]