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All the ideas for 'The Material Mind', 'Truth and Power (interview)' and 'Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion'

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22 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 4. Linguistic Structuralism
15038 Structuralism systematically abstracted the event from sciences, and even from history [Foucault]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 4. Uses of Truth
15044 'Truth' is the procedures for controlling which statements are acceptable [Foucault]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 9. Rejecting Truth
15042 Truth doesn't arise from solitary freedom, but from societies with constraints [Foucault]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge
15037 Why does knowledge appear in sudden bursts, and not in a smooth continuous development? [Foucault]
18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 1. Psychology
6386 In no important way can psychology be reduced to the physical sciences [Davidson]
24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 1. Purpose of a State
15043 Every society has a politics of truth, concerning its values, functions, prestige and mechanisms [Foucault]
24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 1. Social Power
15040 Marxists denounced power as class domination, but never analysed its mechanics [Foucault]
15041 Power doesn't just repress, but entices us with pleasure, artefacts, knowledge and discourse [Foucault]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
15039 History lacks 'meaning', but it can be analysed in terms of its struggles [Foucault]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 5. God and Time
20712 God is 'eternal' either by being non-temporal, or by enduring forever [Davies,B]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / a. Divine morality
20701 Can God be good, if he has not maximised goodness? [Davies,B]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / c. God is the good
20702 The goodness of God may be a higher form than the goodness of moral agents [Davies,B]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality
20703 How could God have obligations? What law could possibly impose them? [Davies,B]
28. God / B. Proving God / 1. Proof of God
20694 'Natural theology' aims to prove God to anyone (not just believers) by reason or argument [Davies,B]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / a. Cosmological Proof
20706 A distinct cause of the universe can't be material (which would be part of the universe) [Davies,B]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
20707 The universe exhibits design either in its sense of purpose, or in its regularity [Davies,B]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique
20708 If God is an orderly being, he cannot be the explanation of order [Davies,B]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / d. Religious Experience
20710 Maybe an abnormal state of mind is needed to experience God? [Davies,B]
20711 A believer can experience the world as infused with God [Davies,B]
20709 The experiences of God are inconsistent, not universal, and untestable [Davies,B]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / b. Religious Meaning
20697 One does not need a full understanding of God in order to speak of God [Davies,B]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / d. Heaven
20699 Paradise would not contain some virtues, such as courage [Davies,B]