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All the ideas for 'works', 'Letters to Hugo Boxel' and 'Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action'

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 3. Contradiction

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth [Pascal]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

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Moral right is linked to validity and truth, so morality is a matter of knowledge, not an expression of values [Habermas, by Finlayson]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 5. Natural Beauty

4870	The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible [Spinoza]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

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Move from individual willing of a general law, to willing norms agreed with other people [Habermas]