Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Value of Science', 'On Providence' and 'On the Jewish Question'

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6 ideas

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness

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To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature [Seneca]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / a. External goods

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Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism

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Man is dominated by money, which is the essence of his alienation [Marx]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

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Marxists say liberal rights are confrontational, and liberal equality is a sham [Marx, by Wolff,J]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

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The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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The ocean changes in volume in proportion to the attraction of the moon [Seneca]