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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'fragments/reports' and 'Prolegomena to Ethics'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

291	Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / a. Idealistic ethics

23035

The good life aims at perfections, or absolute laws, or what is absolutely desirable [Green,TH]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage

293	Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / c. Liberal equality

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People are improved by egalitarian institutions and habits [Green,TH]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / e. Liberal community

23043

All talk of the progress of a nation must reduce to the progress of its individual members [Green,TH]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]