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All the ideas for 'Two Notions of Being: Entity and Essence', 'Liberalism and the Limits of Justice' and 'works'

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9 ideas

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

7822	A neo-Stoic movement began in the late sixteenth century [Lipsius, by Grayling]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Metaphysics aims to identify categories of being, and show their interdependency [Lowe]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual

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Philosophy aims not at the 'analysis of concepts', but at understanding the essences of things [Lowe]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects

13918

Holes, shadows and spots of light can coincide without being identical [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory

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All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

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Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 4. Type Identity

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Each thing has to be of a general kind, because it belongs to some category [Lowe]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 4. Original Position / a. Original position

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Choosers in the 'original position' have been stripped of most human characteristics [Sandel, by Tuckness/Wolf]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / b. Liberal individualism

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The self is 'unencumbered' if it can abandon its roles and commitments without losing identity [Sandel, by Shorten]