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All the ideas for 'Positivism and Realism', 'Giordano Bruno and Hermetic Tradition' and 'Law, Pragmatism and Democracy'

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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

9288	The magic of Asclepius enters Renaissance thought mixed into Ficino's neo-platonism [Yates]

9291	The dating, in 1614, of the Hermetic writings as post-Christian is the end of the Renaissance [Yates]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

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The empiricist says that metaphysics is meaningless, rather than false [Schlick]

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

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