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All the ideas for 'teaching', 'Evil and Omnipotence' and 'Metaphysics of Morals I: Doctrine of Right'

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26 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]
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason
21406 Because there is only one human reason, there can only be one true philosophy from principles [Kant]
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]
12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge
21081 We are equipped with the a priori intuitions needed for the concept of right [Kant]
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]
24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights
21082 A power-based state of nature may not be unjust, but there is no justice without competent judges [Kant]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / a. Autocracy
21089 Monarchs have the highest power; autocrats have complete power [Kant]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / d. Elites
21086 Hereditary nobility has not been earned, and probably won't be earned [Kant]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / d. Liberal freedom
21080 Actions are right if the maxim respects universal mutual freedoms [Kant]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 12. Feminism
21083 Women have no role in politics [Kant]
25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 3. Legal equality
21407 Equality is not being bound in ways you cannot bind others [Kant]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 3. Alienating rights
21084 In the contract people lose their rights, but immediately regain them, in the new commonwealth [Kant]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
21090 If someone has largely made something, then they own it [Kant]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice
21087 Human life is pointless without justice [Kant]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / a. Right to punish
21088 Justice asserts the death penalty for murder, from a priori laws [Kant]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 2. Religion in Society
21085 The church has a political role, by offering a supreme power over people [Kant]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature
644 For Pythagoreans the entire universe is made of numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle]
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]
375 When musical harmony and rhythm were discovered, similar features were seen in bodily movement [Pythagoras, by Plato]
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]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / a. Problem of Evil
1473 Is evil an illusion, or a necessary contrast, or uncontrollable, or necessary for human free will? [Mackie, by PG]
1472 The propositions that God is good and omnipotent, and that evil exists, are logically contradictory [Mackie, by PG]