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All the ideas for 'Human Flourishing, Ethics and Liberty', 'works' and 'Two letters on mind'

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6 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics
All of mathematics is properties of the whole numbers [Kronecker]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / c. Priority of numbers
God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man [Kronecker]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
Incorporeal substances are powers or forces [Descartes, by Pasnau]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / d. Good as virtue
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
What counts as 'flourishing' must be relative to various sets of values [Harman]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension
Impenetrability only belongs to the essence of extension [Descartes]