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All the ideas for 'Letters to Wolff', 'works' and 'Against Dryness: a polemical sketch'

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5 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

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The properties of a thing flow from its essence [Leibniz]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

20949

Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

7669	We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism

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Man is a brave naked will, separate from a background of values and realities [Murdoch]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism

7668	Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin]