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All the ideas for 'The Morality of Happiness', 'The New Organon' and 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow'

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12 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism
16639 Only individual bodies exist [Bacon]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal
16033 There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon]
14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science
21950 Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason
3546 'Phronesis' should translate as 'practical intelligence', not as prudence [Annas]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / d. Sources of pleasure
3547 Epicureans achieve pleasure through character development [Annas]
23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 3. Cyrenaic School
3543 Cyrenaics pursue pleasure, but don't equate it with happiness [Annas]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue
3541 Ancient ethics uses attractive notions, not imperatives [Annas]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology
3550 Principles cover life as a whole, where rules just cover actions [Annas]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty
3551 Virtue theory tries to explain our duties in terms of our character [Annas]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 6. Motivation for Duty
3552 If excessively good actions are admirable but not required, then duty isn't basic [Annas]
23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism
3542 We should do good when necessary, not maximise it [Annas]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation
8433 There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]