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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Freedom and Action' and 'Law, Pragmatism and Democracy'

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4 ideas

20. Action / A. Definition of Action / 1. Action Theory

20062

If a desire leads to a satisfactory result by an odd route, the causal theory looks wrong [Chisholm]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / c. Agent causation

20054

There has to be a brain event which is not caused by another event, but by the agent [Chisholm]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / a. Nature of democracy

21131

Democracy is competition for support of the people, guided by self-interest on all sides [Posner]