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All the ideas for 'Human Flourishing, Ethics and Liberty', 'The Making of a Philosopher' and 'Cogitata et Visa'

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5 ideas

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism
3648 Empiricists are collecting ants; rationalists are spinning spiders; and bees do both [Bacon]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind
4691 If all mental life were conscious, we would be unable to see things, or to process speech [McGinn]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention
4690 If meaning is speaker's intentions, it can be reduced to propositional attitudes, and philosophy of mind [McGinn]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / d. Good as virtue
5121 Basing ethics on flourishing makes it consequentialist, as actions are judged by contributing to it [Harman]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia
5120 What counts as 'flourishing' must be relative to various sets of values [Harman]