Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Conquest of Happiness' and 'The Actual and the Possible'

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7 ideas

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

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A state of affairs is only possible if there has been an actual substance to initiate it [Pruss]

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

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

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

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

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 4. Boredom

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Boredom always involves not being fully occupied [Russell]

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

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Boredom is an increasingly strong motivating power [Russell]

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