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All the ideas for 'The Courtier and the Heretic', 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man' and 'Morality as system of hypothetical imperatives'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / e. Ethical cognitivism

22392

Morality is inescapable, in descriptive words such as 'dishonest', 'unjust' and 'uncharitable' [Foot]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

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Reason is not a motivator of morality [Foot, by Hacker-Wright]

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Rejecting moral rules may be villainous, but it isn't inconsistent [Foot]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

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Saying we 'ought to be moral' makes no sense, unless it relates to some other system [Foot]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 4. Categorical Imperative

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Morality no more consists of categorical imperatives than etiquette does [Foot]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 10. Theocracy

7825	The politics of Leibniz was the reunification of Christianity [Stewart,M]