Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'What is Good?' and 'On the Elements of Being: I'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 3. Earlier European Philosophy / c. Later medieval philosophy

7823	Lucretius was rediscovered in 1417 [Grayling]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

8510	'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]

8508	A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]

8509	A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / e. Honour

7809	In an honour code shame is the supreme punishment, and revenge is a duty [Grayling]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide

7824	If suicide is lawful, but assisting suicide is unlawful, powerless people are denied their rights [Grayling]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / a. Religious Belief

7819	Religion gives answers, comforts, creates social order, and panders to superstition [Grayling]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

7817	To make an afterlife appealing, this life has to be denigrated [Grayling]

7818	In Greek mythology only heroes can go to heaven [Grayling]