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All the ideas for 'Explaining the A Priori', 'MacIntyre versus the Enlightenment' and 'Giordano Bruno and Hermetic Tradition'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought
The magic of Asclepius enters Renaissance thought mixed into Ficino's neo-platonism [Yates]
The dating, in 1614, of the Hermetic writings as post-Christian is the end of the Renaissance [Yates]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism
You would have to be very morally lazy to ignore criticisms of your own culture [Nagel]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts
The concept 'red' is tied to what actually individuates red things [Peacocke]