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All the ideas for 'teaching', 'Against Dryness: a polemical sketch' and 'Introduction to 'Personal Identity''

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16 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom
5896 Speak the truth, for this alone deifies man [Pythagoras, by Porphyry]
1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 2. Ancient Thought
3051 Pythagoras discovered the numerical relation of sounds on a string [Pythagoras, by Diog. Laertius]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / m. One
7485 For Pythagoreans 'one' is not a number, but the foundation of numbers [Pythagoras, by Watson]
16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / b. Self as mental continuity
5504 Maybe we should see persons in four dimensions, with stages or time-slices at an instant [Martin/Barresi]
5503 Maybe personal identity is not vital in survival, and other continuations would suffice [Martin/Barresi]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct
5502 Locke's intrinsic view of personal identity has been replaced by an externalist view [Martin/Barresi]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / d. Health
3053 Pythagoras taught that virtue is harmony, and health, and universal good, and God [Pythagoras, by Diog. Laertius]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice
5244 For Pythagoreans, justice is simply treating all people the same [Pythagoras, by Aristotle]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
20765 Man is a brave naked will, separate from a background of values and realities [Murdoch]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature
375 When musical harmony and rhythm were discovered, similar features were seen in bodily movement [Pythagoras, by Plato]
638 Pythagoreans define timeliness, justice and marriage in terms of numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle]
553 Pythagoreans think mathematical principles are the principles of all of nature [Pythagoras, by Aristotle]
554 Pythagoreans say things imitate numbers, but Plato says things participate in numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle]
644 For Pythagoreans the entire universe is made of numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality
7467 The modern idea of an immortal soul was largely created by Pythagoras [Pythagoras, by Watson]
5505 For Aristotle the psyche perishes with the body (except possibly 'nous') [Martin/Barresi]