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All the ideas for 'works', 'Giordano Bruno and Hermetic Tradition' and 'Morality and the emotions'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

9288	The magic of Asclepius enters Renaissance thought mixed into Ficino's neo-platonism [Yates]

9291	The dating, in 1614, of the Hermetic writings as post-Christian is the end of the Renaissance [Yates]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

10800

The values of variables can't determine existence, because they are just expressions [Ryle, by Quine]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / c. Role of emotions

24008

Reference to a person's emotions is often essential to understanding their actions [Williams,B]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / g. Controlling emotions

24009

Moral education must involve learning about various types of feeling towards things [Williams,B]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

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Emotivism saw morality as expressing emotions, and influencing others' emotions [Williams,B]

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

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An admirable human being should have certain kinds of emotional responses [Williams,B]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 6. Motivation for Duty

24012

Kant's love of consistency is too rigid, and it even overrides normal fairness [Williams,B]