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All the ideas for 'Dialectic of Enlightenment', 'Nominalism' and 'No Moral Difference'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 5. Critical Theory

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Adorno and Horkheimer subjected the Enlightenment to 'critical theory' analysis [Adorno/Horkheimer, by Finlayson]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 3. Types of Set / c. Unit (Singleton) Sets

8956	What is a singleton set, if a set is meant to be a collection of objects? [Szabó]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete

8953	Abstract entities don't depend on their concrete entities ...but maybe on the totality of concrete things [Szabó]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

8954	Geometrical circles cannot identify a circular paint patch, presumably because they lack something [Szabó]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 5. Abstracta by Negation

8955	Abstractions are imperceptible, non-causal, and non-spatiotemporal (the third explaining the others) [Szabó]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

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De Sade said it was impossible to rationally argue against murder [Adorno/Horkheimer]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 2. Euthanasia

4053	If it is desirable that a given patient die, then moral objections to killing them do not apply [Rachels]

4052	It has become normal to consider passive euthanasia while condemning active euthanasia [Rachels]