Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding' and 'Modern Moral Philosophy'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff

16771

A composite is a true unity if all of its parts fall under one essence [Scheibler]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

19261

Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

8070	It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

8065	'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe]

8069	Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe]