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All the ideas for 'The Guide of the Perplexed', 'Anarchical Fallacies: on the Declaration of Rights' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

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6 ideas

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

6853	Consequentialism wrongly assumes a clear line between an act and its consequences [Crisp,R]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights

20977

Natural rights are nonsense, and unspecified natural rights is nonsense on stilts [Bentham]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

21003

Only laws can produce real rights; rights from 'law of nature' are imaginary [Bentham]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 4. Ecology

6854	Does the environment have value in itself? [Crisp,R]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature

20696

We can approach knowledge of God by negative attributes [Maimonides]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity

19085

Thinking of God as resembling humans results from a bad translation of Genesis 1:26 [Maimonides]