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All the ideas for 'Discipline and Punish', 'Vague Identity: Evans misunderstood' and 'Modern Moral Philosophy'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
16458 Semantic vagueness involves alternative and equal precisifications of the language [Lewis]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
8070 It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology
8065 'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe]
8069 Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 4. Changing the State / a. Centralisation
21947 Power is localised, so we either have totalitarian centralisation, or local politics [Foucault, by Gutting]
25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
21946 Prisons gradually became our models for schools, hospitals and factories [Foucault, by Gutting]