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All the ideas for 'On the Soul (frags)', 'The Rationalists' and 'Rationality and Goodness'

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5 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

4304	Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

4303	The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism

5997	Dicaearchus said soul does not exist, but is just a configuration of the body [Dicaearchus, by Fortenbaugh]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / d. Virtue theory critique

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Good and bad are a matter of actions, not of internal dispositions [Foot]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

4306	For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham]