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All the ideas for 'talk', 'Freedom of the Will and concept of a person' and 'The Concept of Law'

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10 ideas

16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 6. Self as Higher Awareness

9264	Persons are distinguished by a capacity for second-order desires [Frankfurt]

9266	A person essentially has second-order volitions, and not just second-order desires [Frankfurt]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will

9267	Free will is the capacity to choose what sort of will you have [Frankfurt]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

9265	The will is the effective desire which actually leads to an action [Frankfurt]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / c. Agent causation

20015

Freedom of action needs the agent to identify with their reason for acting [Frankfurt, by Wilson/Schpall]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility

9270	A 'wanton' is not a person, because they lack second-order volitions [Frankfurt]

9269	A person may be morally responsible without free will [Frankfurt]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights

21004

Hart (against Bentham) says human rights are what motivate legal rights [Hart,HLA, by Sen]

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / a. Legal system

20932

Positive law needs secondary 'rules of recognition' for their correct application [Hart,HLA, by Zimmermann,J]

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / d. Legal positivism

20931

Hart replaced positivism with the democratic requirement of the people's acceptance [Hart,HLA, by Zimmermann,J]