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All the ideas for 'The Koran', 'An Introduction to Hegel' and 'Pragmatism and Objective Truth'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
6814 Instead of prayer and charity, sinners pursue vain disputes and want their own personal scripture [Mohammed]
3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth
19086 Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 5. Definitions of Number / b. Greek arithmetic
19093 Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth]
14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory
19091 Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 1. Concepts / a. Nature of concepts
19088 For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics
21788 The moral will is self-determining, but the ethical will is met in society [Houlgate]
23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 1. Contractarianism
6823 Repay evil with good and your enemies will become friends (though this is hard) [Mohammed]
6828 You may break off a treaty if you fear treachery from your ally [Mohammed]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues
6826 Allah rewards those who are devout, sincere, patient, humble, charitable, chaste, and who fast [Mohammed]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice
6822 Those who avenge themselves when wronged incur no guilt [Mohammed]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / c. Deterrence of crime
6833 Punish theft in men or women by cutting off their hands [Mohammed]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 1. Causing Death
6825 Do not kill except for a just cause [Mohammed]
6832 Killing a human, except as just punishment, is like killing all mankind [Mohammed]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
6811 Allah is lord of creation, compassionate, merciful, king of judgement-day [Mohammed]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
6819 True believers see that Allah made the night for rest and the day to give light [Mohammed]
29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity
6818 Allah cannot have begotten a son, as He is self-sufficient [Mohammed]
29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 6. Islam
6831 He that kills a believer by design shall burn in Hell for ever [Mohammed]
6829 There shall be no compulsion in religion [Mohammed]
6834 Unbelievers try to interpret the ambiguous parts of the Koran, simply to create dissension [Mohammed]
6817 The Koran is certainly composed by Allah; no one could compose a chapter like it [Mohammed]
6824 Do not split into sects, exulting in separate beliefs [Mohammed]
6821 I created mankind that it might worship Me [Mohammed]
6815 Be patient with unbelievers, and leave them to the judgement of Allah [Mohammed]
6827 Make war on the unbelievers until Allah's religion reigns supreme [Mohammed]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / d. Heaven
6820 The righteous shall dwell on couches in gardens, wedded to dark-eyed houris [Mohammed]
6812 Heaven will be reclining on couches, eating fruit, attended by virgins [Mohammed]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / e. Hell
6830 Unbelievers will have their skin repeatedly burned off in hell [Mohammed]
6816 The unbelievers shall drink boiling water [Mohammed]