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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Intro to Classical Chinese Philosophy' and 'What is the Basis of Moral Obligation?'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

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The Dao (Way) first means the road, and comes to mean the right way to live [Norden]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

9254	In philosophy the truth can only be reached via the ruins of the false [Prichard]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

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The hermeneutic circle is either within the text, or between text and biased reader [Norden]

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Heremeneutics is either 'faith' (examining truth) or 'suspicion' (looking for hidden motives) [Norden]

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 / 1. Virtue Theory / c. Particularism

9256	I see the need to pay a debt in a particular instance, and any instance will do [Prichard]

9257	The complexities of life make it almost impossible to assess morality from a universal viewpoint [Prichard]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

9255	Seeing the goodness of an effect creates the duty to produce it, not the desire [Prichard]