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All the ideas for 'Queries to the 'Opticks'', 'Seven Types of Atheism' and 'The Life of Reason'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 1. History of Philosophy

8000	He who is ignorant of the history of philosophy is doomed to repeat it [Santayana, by MacIntyre]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature

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Principles of things are not hidden features of forms, but the laws by which they were formed [Newton]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

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Free atheism should start by questioning its faith in humanity [Gray]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 4. Dualist Religion

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Gnosticism has a supreme creator God, giving way to a possibly hostile Demiurge [Gray]

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

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Judaism only became monotheistic around 550 BCE [Gray]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity

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Christians introduced the idea that a religion needs a creed [Gray]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

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Buddhism has no divinity or souls, and the aim is to lose the illusion of a self [Gray]