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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Properties'', 'Metaphysics of Morals I: Doctrine of Right' and 'fragments/reports'

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23 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
21406 Because there is only one human reason, there can only be one true philosophy from principles [Kant]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy
1749 If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder]
2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor
4037 Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 6. Categorical Properties
4027 Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties
4029 Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge
21081 We are equipped with the a priori intuitions needed for the concept of right [Kant]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation
4039 Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / h. Against ethics
3558 Only the Cyrenaics reject the idea of a final moral end [Aristippus elder, by Annas]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
5835 The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness [Aristippus elder, by Xenophon]
23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 3. Cyrenaic School
1751 Pleasure is the good, because we always seek it, it satisfies us, and its opposite is the most avoidable thing [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius]
3018 People who object to extravagant pleasures just love money [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius]
24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights
21082 A power-based state of nature may not be unjust, but there is no justice without competent judges [Kant]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / a. Autocracy
21089 Monarchs have the highest power; autocrats have complete power [Kant]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / d. Elites
21086 Hereditary nobility has not been earned, and probably won't be earned [Kant]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / d. Liberal freedom
21080 Actions are right if the maxim respects universal mutual freedoms [Kant]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 12. Feminism
21083 Women have no role in politics [Kant]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 3. Legal equality
21407 Equality is not being bound in ways you cannot bind others [Kant]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 3. Alienating rights
21084 In the contract people lose their rights, but immediately regain them, in the new commonwealth [Kant]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
21090 If someone has largely made something, then they own it [Kant]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice
21087 Human life is pointless without justice [Kant]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / a. Right to punish
21088 Justice asserts the death penalty for murder, from a priori laws [Kant]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / b. Retribution for crime
1755 Errors result from external influence, and should be corrected, not hated [Aristippus elder, by Diog. Laertius]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 2. Religion in Society
21085 The church has a political role, by offering a supreme power over people [Kant]