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All the ideas for 'Modern Moral Philosophy', 'Mathematics: Form and Function' and 'The Tragic Sense of Life'

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5 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets

18189

ZFC could contain a contradiction, and it can never prove its own consistency [MacLane]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

8070	It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe]

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

8065	'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe]

8069	Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

20740

Maybe humans are distinguished from other animals by feelings, rather than reason [Unamuno]