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All the ideas for 'On Duties ('De Officiis')', 'Presentism and Properties' and 'The Individuation of Events'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

21405

Cicero sees wisdom in terms of knowledge, but earlier Stoics saw it as moral [Cicero, by Long]

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

20871

Unfortunately we choose a way of life before we are old enough to think clearly [Cicero]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

18914

Davidson controversially proposed to quantify over events [Davidson, by Engelbretsen]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive

9843	You can't identify events by causes and effects, as the event needs to be known first [Dummett on Davidson]

14602

Events can only be individuated causally [Davidson, by Schaffer,J]

14004

We need events for action statements, causal statements, explanation, mind-and-body, and adverbs [Davidson, by Bourne]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8278	The claim that events are individuated by their causal relations to other events is circular [Lowe on Davidson]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

6031	The essence of propriety is consistency [Cicero]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism

14409

I am a presentist, and all language and common sense supports my view [Bigelow]