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All the ideas for 'Particulars in Particular Clothing', 'What is an Idea?' and 'The Methods of Ethics (7th edn)'

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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes

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Internal relations combine some tropes into a nucleus, which bears the non-essential tropes [Simons, by Edwards]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will

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If we say that freedom depends on rationality, the irrational actions are not free [Sidgwick]

18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas

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By an 'idea' I mean not an actual thought, but the resources we can draw on to think [Leibniz]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

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Self-interest is not rational, if the self is just a succession of memories and behaviour [Sidgwick, by Gray]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

4129	It is self-evident (from the point of view of the Universe) that no individual has more importance than another [Sidgwick]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 4. Social Utilitarianism

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Sidwick argues for utilitarian institutions, rather than actions [Sidgwick, by Tuckness/Wolf]