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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Treatise 4: The Moral Sense' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

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Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason

6855	Interesting philosophers hardly every give you explicitly valid arguments [Martin,M]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

6253	Reason is our power of finding out true propositions [Hutcheson]

2. Reason / E. Argument / 1. Argument

6856	Valid arguments can be rejected by challenging the premises or presuppositions [Martin,M]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

6857	An error theory of perception says our experience is not as it seems to be [Martin,M]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

6256	Can't the moral sense make mistakes, as the other senses do? [Hutcheson]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness

6252	Happiness is a pleasant sensation, or continued state of such sensations [Hutcheson]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

6257	You can't form moral rules without an end, which needs feelings and a moral sense [Hutcheson]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / a. Divine morality

6254	We are asked to follow God's ends because he is our benefactor, but why must we do that? [Hutcheson]

6255	Why may God not have a superior moral sense very similar to ours? [Hutcheson]