Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Mental Life of Some Machines', 'Letters to Fichte' and 'Law and Authority'

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4 ideas

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 2. Machine Functionalism

5495	Instances of pain are physical tokens, but the nature of pain is more abstract [Putnam, by Lycan]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / g. Contemplation

7071	Life and rationality are pointless if we can only contemplate the freedom of our own ego [Jacobi]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism

7072	Jacobi was the first philosopher to talk of nihilism [Jacobi, by Critchley]

25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality

20486

Only liberty, equality and sympathy can stand up to anti-social people [Kropotkin]