Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'An Outline of Empiricism' and 'Spreading the Word'

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6 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason

23248

Early empiricists said reason was just a useless concept introduced by philosophers [Galen, by Frede,M]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

19284

Asserting a necessity just expresses our inability to imagine it is false [Blackburn]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind

3488	Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

5689	Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions

23950

Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

22344

Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch]