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All the ideas for '67: Platonic Questions', 'Eliminative Materialism and Prop. Attitudes' and 'Outline of a System of Utilitarianism'

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5 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

5960	When the soul is intelligent and harmonious, it is part of god and derives from god [Plutarch]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism

4988	Folk psychology may not be reducible, but that doesn't make it false [Kirk,R on Churchland,PM]

4987	Eliminative materialism says folk psychology will be replaced, not reduced [Churchland,PM]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

22405

Negative utilitarianism implies that the world should be destroyed, to avoid future misery [Smart]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 3. Motivation for Altruism

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Any group interested in ethics must surely have a sentiment of generalised benevolence [Smart]