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All the ideas for 'From Stimulus to Science', 'Idea for a Universal History' and 'Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 3. Pure Reason

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Reason enables the unbounded extension of our rules and intentions [Kant]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

6564	To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will

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The manifest will in the world of phenomena has to conform to the laws of nature [Kant]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

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Moral right is linked to validity and truth, so morality is a matter of knowledge, not an expression of values [Habermas, by Finlayson]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

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Move from individual willing of a general law, to willing norms agreed with other people [Habermas]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / d. Liberal freedom

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Our aim is a constitution which combines maximum freedom with strong restraint [Kant]

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The vitality of business needs maximum freedom (while avoiding harm to others) [Kant]

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice

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The highest ideal of social progress is a universal cosmopolitan existence [Kant]