Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'talk' and 'Letters to Foucher'

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11 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

13095

Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 1. Perception

22167

Our images of bodies are not produced by the bodies, but by our own minds [Augustine, by Aquinas]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

22117

Our minds grasp reality by direct illumination (rather than abstraction from experience) [Augustine, by Matthews]

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

22118

Augustine created the modern concept of the will [Augustine, by Matthews]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

4348	Love, and do what you will [Augustine]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good

7821	Pagans produced three hundred definitions of the highest good [Augustine, by Grayling]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

22119

Augustine said (unusually) that 'ought' does not imply 'can' [Augustine, by Matthews]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

2117	The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

22116

Augustine identified Donatism, Pelagianism and Manicheism as the main heresies [Augustine, by Matthews]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / b. Human Evil

19338

Augustine said evil does not really exist, and evil is a limitation in goodness [Augustine, by Perkins]