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All the ideas for '04: Gospel of St John', 'Fifteen Sermons' and 'Human Freedom and the Self'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos

6294	In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God [John]

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 2. Defining Truth

8821	Jesus said he bore witness to the truth. Pilate asked, What is truth? [John]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will

3444	If actions are not caused by other events, and are not causeless, they must be caused by the person [Chisholm]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

3446	For Hobbes (but not for Kant) a person's actions can be deduced from their desires and beliefs [Chisholm]

9268	If free will miraculously interrupts causation, animals might do that; why would we want to do it? [Frankfurt on Chisholm]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 4. Responsibility for Actions

3442	Responsibility seems to conflict with events being either caused or not caused [Chisholm]

3443	Desires may rule us, but are we responsible for our desires? [Chisholm]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

8066	Butler exalts conscience, but it may be horribly misleading [Anscombe on Butler]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

3445	Causation among objects relates either events or states [Chisholm]