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All the ideas for 'Classical Cosmology (frags)', 'Virtue Ethics: an Introduction' and 'Philosophy'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 4. Uses of Truth
20320 Truth is what unites, and the profound truths create a community [Jaspers]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will
20323 Freedom needs knowledge, the possibility of arbitrariness, and law [Jaspers]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
20322 I am aware that freedom is possible, and the freedom is not in theory, but in seeking freedom [Jaspers]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 4. Responsibility for Actions
20324 My freedom increases as I broaden my vision of possiblities and motives [Jaspers]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
5078 Kant and Mill both try to explain right and wrong, without a divine lawgiver [Taylor,R]
5067 Morality based on 'forbid', 'permit' and 'require' implies someone who does these things [Taylor,R]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
5079 Pleasure can have a location, and be momentary, and come and go - but happiness can't [Taylor,R]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia
5068 'Eudaimonia' means 'having a good demon', implying supreme good fortune [Taylor,R]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / b. Basis of virtue
5076 To Greeks it seemed obvious that the virtue of anything is the perfection of its function [Taylor,R]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology
5077 The modern idea of obligation seems to have lost the idea of an obligation 'to' something [Taylor,R]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty
5066 If we are made in God's image, pursuit of excellence is replaced by duty to obey God [Taylor,R]
5065 The ethics of duty requires a religious framework [Taylor,R]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
20318 My helplessness in philosophising reveals my being, and begins its upsurge [Jaspers]
20321 The struggle for Existenz is between people who are equals, and are utterly honest [Jaspers]
20325 Once we grasp freedom 'from' things, then freedom 'for' things becomes urgent [Jaspers]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self
20317 Mundane existence is general, falling under universals, but Existens is unique to individuals [Jaspers]
20315 'Existenz' is the potential being, which I could have, and ought to have [Jaspers]
20319 We want the correct grasp on being that is neither solipsism nor absorption in the crowd [Jaspers]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 7. Existential Action
20316 Every decision I make moves towards or away from fulfilled Existenz [Jaspers]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
5994 Is the cosmos open or closed, mechanical or teleological, alive or inanimate, and created or eternal? [Robinson,TM, by PG]