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All the ideas for 'poems', 'Intro to Classical Chinese Philosophy' and 'Moral Thinking: Its Levels,Method and Point'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought

23392

The Dao (Way) first means the road, and comes to mean the right way to live [Norden]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

23408

The hermeneutic circle is either within the text, or between text and biased reader [Norden]

23407

Heremeneutics is either 'faith' (examining truth) or 'suspicion' (looking for hidden motives) [Norden]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

4125	Hare says I acquire an agglomeration of preferences by role-reversal, leading to utilitarianism [Hare, by Williams,B]

4126	If we have to want the preferences of the many, we have to abandon our own deeply-held views [Williams,B on Hare]

4127	If morality is to be built on identification with the preferences of others, I must agree with their errors [Williams,B on Hare]

22483

A judgement is presciptive if we expect it to be acted on [Hare]

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

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 8. Contract Strategies

4360	By far the easiest way of seeming upright is to be upright [Hare]