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All the ideas for 'Philosophy as a way of life', 'The Fragmentation of Value' and 'Purple Haze'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy

9198	It is no longer possible to be a sage, but we can practice the exercise of wisdom [Hadot]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos

9197	The logos represents a demand for universal rationality [Hadot]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / d. Explanatory gap

7876	Even if we identify pain with neural events, we can't explain why those neurons cause that feeling [Levine, by Papineau]

7877	Only phenomenal states have an explanatory gap; water is fully explained by H2O [Levine, by Papineau]

7878	Materialism won't explain phenomenal properties, because the latter aren't seen in causal roles [Papineau on Levine]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory

3284	There is no one theory of how to act (or what to believe) [Nagel]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / b. Types of pleasure

9196	The pleasure of existing is the only genuine pleasure [Hadot]