Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Morality and the emotions' and 'fragments/reports'

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9 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

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Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / a. Physicalism critique

3448	Do new ideas increase the weight of the brain? [Dance]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / c. Role of emotions

24008

Reference to a person's emotions is often essential to understanding their actions [Williams,B]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / g. Controlling emotions

24009

Moral education must involve learning about various types of feeling towards things [Williams,B]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

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Emotivism saw morality as expressing emotions, and influencing others' emotions [Williams,B]

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

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An admirable human being should have certain kinds of emotional responses [Williams,B]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 6. Motivation for Duty

24012

Kant's love of consistency is too rigid, and it even overrides normal fairness [Williams,B]