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All the ideas for 'works (all lost)', 'German Philosophy: a very short introduction' and 'Mathematical Intuition'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy

1749	If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism

18201

General principles can be obvious in mathematics, but bold speculations in empirical science [Parsons,C]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

22049

Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

22055

The Idealists saw the same unexplained spontaneity in Kant's judgements and choices [Bowie]

22054

German Idealism tried to stop oppositions of appearances/things and receptivity/spontaneity [Bowie]

22056

Crucial to Idealism is the idea of continuity between receptivity and spontaneous judgement [Bowie]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / h. Against ethics

3558	Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

5835	The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 3. Cyrenaic School

1751	Pleasure is the good, because we always seek it, it satisfies us, and its opposite is the most avoidable thing [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius]

3018	People who object to extravagant pleasures just love money [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius]

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

1755	Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius]