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All the ideas for 'Ethical Studies', 'Anarchical Fallacies: on the Declaration of Rights' and 'Letters to Paul Pellison-Fontinier'

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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

5655	Happiness is not satisfaction of desires, but fulfilment of values [Bradley, by Scruton]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights

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Natural rights are nonsense, and unspecified natural rights is nonsense on stilts [Bentham]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

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Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary [Bentham]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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Clearly, force is that from which action follows, when unimpeded [Leibniz]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / i. Denying time

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Time doesn't exist, since its parts don't coexist [Leibniz]