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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher' and 'The Meditations (To Himself)'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

3067	A philosopher should have principles ready for understanding, like a surgeon with instruments [Aurelius]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change

3072	Everything is changing, including yourself and the whole universe [Aurelius]

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 / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / k. Ethics from nature

3066	Nothing is evil which is according to nature [Aurelius]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / c. Value of pleasure

3071	Justice has no virtue opposed to it, but pleasure has temperance opposed to it [Aurelius]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / b. Living naturally

3069	The art of life is more like the wrestler's than the dancer's [Aurelius]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

3065	Humans are naturally made for co-operation [Aurelius]

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / b. Retribution for crime

1658	In early Greece the word for punishment was also the word for vengeance [Vlastos]