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All the ideas for 'Saundaranandakavya', 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom' and 'Dion and Theon: an essentialist solution'

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21 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

7910	Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour

6848	Humour is practically enacted philosophy [Critchley]

6847	Humour can give a phenomenological account of existence, and point to change [Critchley]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

6844	Scientism is the view that everything can be explained causally through scientific method [Critchley]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

6835	German idealism aimed to find a unifying principle for Kant's various dualisms [Critchley]

6837	Since Hegel, continental philosophy has been linked with social and historical enquiry. [Critchley]

6836	Continental philosophy fights the threatened nihilism in the critique of reason [Critchley]

6838	Continental philosophy is based on critique, praxis and emancipation [Critchley]

6845	Continental philosophy has a bad tendency to offer 'one big thing' to explain everything [Critchley]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology

6846	Phenomenology is a technique of redescription which clarifies our social world [Critchley]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

16235

Persistence conditions cannot contradict, so there must be a 'dominant sortal' [Burke,M, by Hawley]

14753

The 'dominant' of two coinciding sortals is the one that entails the widest range of properties [Burke,M, by Sider]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates

16072

'The rock' either refers to an object, or to a collection of parts, or to some stuff [Burke,M, by Wasserman]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail

14751

Tib goes out of existence when the tail is lost, because Tib was never the 'cat' [Burke,M, by Sider]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay

16071

Sculpting a lump of clay destroys one object, and replaces it with another one [Burke,M, by Wasserman]

16234

Burke says when two object coincide, one of them is destroyed in the process [Burke,M, by Hawley]

13278

Maybe the clay becomes a different lump when it becomes a statue [Burke,M, by Koslicki]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects

14750

Two entities can coincide as one, but only one of them (the dominant sortal) fixes persistence conditions [Burke,M, by Sider]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism

6843	Perceiving meaninglessness is an achievement, which can transform daily life [Critchley]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7909	The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / d. Heaven

7908	At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha]