Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Demonstratives', 'The Methods of Ethics (7th edn)' and 'Medical Conceptions of Health pre-Renaissance'

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7 ideas

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will

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If we say that freedom depends on rationality, the irrational actions are not free [Sidgwick]

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]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / d. Health

22237

The Greeks had a single word meaning both 'beautiful' and 'good' [Pormann]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

23059

Self-interest is not rational, if the self is just a succession of memories and behaviour [Sidgwick, by Gray]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

4129	It is self-evident (from the point of view of the Universe) that no individual has more importance than another [Sidgwick]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 4. Social Utilitarianism

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Sidwick argues for utilitarian institutions, rather than actions [Sidgwick, by Tuckness/Wolf]