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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Fate ('De fato')' and 'Intro to Classical Chinese Philosophy'

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8 ideas

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

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

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

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

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

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence

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How can the not-true fail to be false, or the not-false fail to be true? [Cicero]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

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Oratory and philosophy are closely allied; orators borrow from philosophy, and ornament it [Cicero]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility

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If desire is not in our power then neither are choices, so we should not be praised or punished [Cicero]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

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Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

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Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]