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All the ideas for 'Demonstratives', 'Giordano Bruno and Hermetic Tradition' and 'Rationality and Virtue'

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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

9288	The magic of Asclepius enters Renaissance thought mixed into Ficino's neo-platonism [Yates]

9291	The dating, in 1614, of the Hermetic writings as post-Christian is the end of the Renaissance [Yates]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

14894

Indexicals have a 'character' (the standing meaning), and a 'content' (truth-conditions for one context) [Kaplan, by Macià/Garcia-Carpentiro]

14700

'Content' gives the standard modal profile, and 'character' gives rules for a context [Kaplan, by Schroeter]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason

22480

Possessing the virtue of justice disposes a person to good practical rationality [Foot]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

22477

Calling a knife or farmer or speech or root good does not involve attitudes or feelings [Foot]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / b. Basis of virtue

22478

The essential thing is the 'needs' of plants and animals, and their operative parts [Foot]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice

22479

Observing justice is necessary to humans, like hunting to wolves or dancing to bees [Foot]