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All the ideas for 'works', 'Il Saggiatore ('The Assayer')' and 'The Roots of Romanticism'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

7662	Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

7401	Heat and colour don't exist, so cannot mislead about the external world [Galileo, by Tuck]

5454	Tastes, odours and colours only reside in consciousness, and would disappear with creatures [Galileo]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

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Galileo introduced geometrico-mechanical explanation, based on Archimedes [Galileo, by Machamer/Darden/Craver]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

7665	Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin]

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

7667	There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin]

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

7676	If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin]

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

7664	The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism

7677	Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

3645	To understand the universe mathematics is essential [Galileo]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 2. Judaism

7663	Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin]