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All the ideas for 'Clitophon', 'Letters to Oldenburg' and 'The Absurd'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

3269	If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 8. Social Justification

3270	Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4867	Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism

1590	The just man does not harm his enemies, but benefits everyone [Plato]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism

3268	If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

4866	God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

4868	Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza]