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All the ideas for 'God and Human Attributes', 'De Cive' and 'The Conquest of Happiness'

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7 ideas

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]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / c. Combatants

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I act justly if I follow my Prince in an apparently unjust war, and refusing to fight would be injustice [Hobbes]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / c. Moral Argument

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God must be fit for worship, but worship abandons morally autonomy, but there is no God [Rachels, by Davies,B]