Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Letters to Edward Stillingfleet', 'True Method in Philosophy and Theology' and 'works'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason

18241

Sufficient reason is implied by contradiction, of an insufficient possible which exists [Wolff, by Korsgaard]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

19393

What is not active is nothing [Leibniz]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

15990

Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

15994

If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question

18242

Confucius shows that ethics can rest on reason, rather than on revelation [Wolff, by Korsgaard]