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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Science of Rights' and 'Mathematics and Philosophy: grand and little'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
9808 Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics [Badiou]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics
9812 In mathematics, if a problem can be formulated, it will eventually be solved [Badiou]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite
9813 Mathematics shows that thinking is not confined to the finite [Badiou]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
9809 Mathematics inscribes being as such [Badiou]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
9811 It is of the essence of being to appear [Badiou]
16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 6. Body sustains Self
22063 Effective individuals must posit a specific material body for themselves [Fichte]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature
9814 All great poetry is engaged in rivalry with mathematics [Badiou]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
541 Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
542 Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias]