Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Prologue to Ordinatio', 'Reason, Emotions and Good Life' and 'reports'

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6 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

9100	Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true [William of Ockham]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

9101	Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars [William of Ockham]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

5517	Individuals don't exist, but are conventional names for sets of elements [Buddha]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason

4316	Either all action is rational, or reason dominates, or reason is only concerned with means [Cottingham]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7600	The Buddha believed the gods would eventually disappear, and Nirvana was much higher [Buddha, by Armstrong,K]

7601	Life is suffering, from which only compassion, gentleness, truth and sobriety can save us [Buddha]