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All the ideas for 'On Being (lost)', 'Aristotle on Learning to be Good' and 'fragments/reports'

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9 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
12270 Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism
4377 Intellectualism is an excessive emphasis on reasoning in moral philosophy [Burnyeat]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
536 We should follow the law in public, and nature in private [Antiphon]
1557 To gain the greatest advantage only treat law as important when other people are present [Antiphon]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
540 The way you spend your time will form your character [Antiphon]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 2. Anarchism
539 Nothing is worse for mankind than anarchy [Antiphon]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
3059 There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 1. Void
5100 The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe
456 Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus]