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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Roots of Romanticism' and 'Knowledge and its Limits'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

7662	Romanticism is the greatest change in the consciousness of the West [Berlin]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

4760	Belief aims at knowledge (rather than truth), and mere believing is a kind of botched knowing [Williamson]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 7. Knowledge First

19512

Don't analyse knowledge; use knowledge to analyse other concepts in epistemology [Williamson, by DeRose]

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

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

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

7665	Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that virtue consists ultimately in knowledge [Berlin]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

7676	If we are essentially free wills, authenticity and sincerity are the highest virtues [Berlin]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

7664	The Greeks have no notion of obligation or duty [Berlin]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism

7677	Central to existentialism is the romantic idea that there is nothing to lean on [Berlin]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 2. Judaism

7663	Judaism and Christianity views are based on paternal, family and tribal relations [Berlin]