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All the ideas for 'New System and Explanation of New System', 'The Actual and the Virtual' and 'A Critique of Utilitarianism'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads
5044 Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
21907 We don't want another new set of categories; we want a variety of flexible categories [Deleuze, by May]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
5045 No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self [Leibniz]
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 5. Parallelism
5046 The soul does know bodies, although they do not influence one another [Leibniz]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
22410 Maybe the unthinkable is a moral category, and considering some options is dishonourable or absurd [Williams,B]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
22408 Consequentialism assumes that situations can be compared [Williams,B]
22411 For a consequentialist massacring 7 million must be better than massacring 7 million and one [Williams,B]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability
22409 We don't have a duty to ensure that others do their duty [Williams,B]
23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism
22407 Utilitarianism cannot make any serious sense of integrity [Williams,B]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life
5043 To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz]