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All the ideas for 'Changes in Events and Changes in Things', 'Killing and Letting Die' and 'Spinoza's Ethics'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

21855

Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact

15201

That Queen Anne is dead is a 'general fact', not a fact about Queen Anne [Prior,AN]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving

21866

Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / c. Omissions

4692	It is not true that killing and allowing to die (or acts and omissions) are morally indistinguishable [Foot]

4694	Making a runaway tram kill one person instead of five is diverting a fatal sequence, not initiating one [Foot]

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

4693	The right of non-interference (with a 'negative duty'), and the right to goods/services ('positive') [Foot]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series

22899

'Thank goodness that's over' is not like 'thank goodness that happened on Friday' [Prior,AN]