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All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'That Politics may be reduced to a Science' and 'Modern Moral Philosophy'

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

14296

Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

8070	It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / d. Friendship

21093

Friendship without community spirit misses out on the main part of virtue [Hume]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

8065	'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe]

8069	Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 3. Constitutions

21091

It would be absurd if even a free constitution did not impose restraints, for the public good [Hume]

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / d. Elites

21092

Nobility either share in the power of the whole, or they compose the power of the whole [Hume]