Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Leibniz: Guide for the Perplexed', 'Sententia on 'De Caelo'' and 'Internal and External Reasons'

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3 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

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Philosophy aims to know the truth about the way things are [Aquinas]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

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Substance needs independence, unity, and stability (for individuation); also it is a subject, for predicates [Perkins]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes

9284	Reasons are 'internal' if they give a person a motive to act, but 'external' otherwise [Williams,B]