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All the ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'A Short History of Ethics' and 'Mathematics and Philosophy: grand and little'

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18 ideas

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

8013	In the Reformation, morality became unconditional but irrational, individually autonomous, and secular [MacIntyre]

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

8021	The Levellers and the Diggers mark a turning point in the history of morality [MacIntyre]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason

9808	Philosophy aims to reveal the grandeur of mathematics [Badiou]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics

9812	In mathematics, if a problem can be formulated, it will eventually be solved [Badiou]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite

9813	Mathematics shows that thinking is not confined to the finite [Badiou]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being

9809	Mathematics inscribes being as such [Badiou]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

9811	It is of the essence of being to appear [Badiou]

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

8006	When Aristotle speaks of soul he means something like personality [MacIntyre]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

9814	All great poetry is engaged in rivalry with mathematics [Badiou]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

8002	Sophists don't distinguish a person outside one social order from someone outside all order [MacIntyre]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value

8012	The value/fact logical gulf is misleading, because social facts involve values [MacIntyre]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

8005	'Happiness' is a bad translation of 'eudaimonia', which includes both behaving and faring well [MacIntyre]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

7903	The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice

8001	'Dikaiosune' is justice, but also fairness and personal integrity [MacIntyre]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

8023	My duties depend on my identity, which depends on my social relations [MacIntyre]

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

8022	I am naturally free if I am not tied to anyone by a contract [MacIntyre]

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

8031	Fans of natural rights or laws can't agree on what the actual rights or laws are [MacIntyre]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 5. Bible

8008	The Bible is a story about God in which humans are incidental characters [MacIntyre]