Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Necessary Existents', 'The Wealth of Nations' and 'Reasons and Persons'

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4 ideas

19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions

19216

Propositions (such as 'that dog is barking') only exist if their items exist [Williamson]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 1. Contractarianism

20991

People prepare our dinner from their own self-interest, not from humanity [Smith,A]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

9762	We should focus less on subjects of experience, and more on the experiences themselves [Parfit]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 11. Capitalism

20680

Selfish profit-seeking increases collective wealth, so greed is good, and egoism is altruism [Smith,A, by Harari]