Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Of Civil Liberty', 'On Hippocrates and Plato' and 'On the Basis of Morality'

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6 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 1. Mind / d. Location of mind

6003	Galen showed by experiment that the brain controls the body [Galen, by Hankinson]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

21375

Reason can be vicious, and great crimes have to be rational [Schopenhauer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

21379

Man's three basic ethical incentives are egoism, malice and compassion [Schopenhauer]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

6030	Each part of the soul has its virtue - pleasure for appetite, success for competition, and rectitude for reason [Galen]

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / b. Monarchy

21097

Modern monarchies are (like republics) rule by law, rather than by men [Hume]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights

21376

Philosophy treats animals as exploitable things, ignoring the significance of their lives [Schopenhauer]