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All the ideas for 'works', 'Perception' and 'On Duties ('De Officiis')'

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13 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

21405

Cicero sees wisdom in terms of knowledge, but earlier Stoics saw it as moral [Cicero, by Long]

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

20871

Unfortunately we choose a way of life before we are old enough to think clearly [Cicero]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 6. Knowing How

7630	Ryle's dichotomy between knowing how and knowing that is too simplistic [Maund]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

7632	Perception is sensation-then-concept, or direct-concepts, or sensation-saturated-in-concepts [Maund]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory

7635	Sense-data have an epistemological purpose (foundations) and a metaphysical purpose (explanation) [Maund]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7638	One thesis says we are not aware of qualia, but only of objects and their qualities [Maund]

7642	The Myth of the Given claims that thought is rationally supported by non-conceptual experiences [Maund]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 8. Adverbial Theory

7640	Mountains are adverbial modifications of the earth, but still have object-characteristics [Maund]

7641	Adverbialism tries to avoid sense-data and preserve direct realism [Maund]

18. Thought / C. Content / 1. Content

7637	Thought content is either satisfaction conditions, or exercise of concepts [Maund, by PG]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

6031	The essence of propriety is consistency [Cicero]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

16713

Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

6610	I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian]