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All the ideas for 'Culture and Value', 'Postscripts on supervenience' and 'Prescriptivism'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

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While faith is a passion (as Kierkegaard says), wisdom is passionless [Wittgenstein]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience

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Supervenience is not a dependence relation, on the lines of causal, mereological or semantic dependence [Kim]

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Supervenience is just a 'surface' relation of pattern covariation, which still needs deeper explanation [Kim]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

2854	Prescriptivism says 'ought' without commitment to act is insincere, or weakly used [Hooker,B]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 2. Golden Rule

2856	Universal moral judgements imply the Golden Rule ('do as you would be done by') [Hooker,B]