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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Conquest of Happiness' and 'Mathematics and Philosophy: grand and little'

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12 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason

9808	Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics [Badiou]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics

9812	In mathematics, if a problem can be formulated, it will eventually be solved [Badiou]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite

9813	Mathematics shows that thinking is not confined to the finite [Badiou]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

9809	Mathematics inscribes being as such [Badiou]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

9811	It is of the essence of being to appear [Badiou]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

9814	All great poetry is engaged in rivalry with mathematics [Badiou]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

20180

A happy and joyous life must largely be a quiet life [Russell]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 4. Boredom

20177

Boredom always involves not being fully occupied [Russell]

20179

Happiness involves enduring boredom, and the young should be taught this [Russell]

20176

Boredom is an increasingly strong motivating power [Russell]

20178

Life is now more interesting, but boredom is more frightening [Russell]