Thank you Brett! I very much appreciate it as that will help get the ball rolling! When you do, please start a new thread in this forum, as that is the pattern I think will work best - If everyone has their own thread. If you run into any difficulties doing it, please let me know. I think the post editor even allows outlines - using the LIST command at top right of the menu bar.
Just as a test here's an example of using the editor here. Seems to work well! I am thinking that the thing for people to do is start their own thread, then compose their own version of something like this - starting basic and then expanding. A format like this (starting basic, like Jefferson's) will be especially helpful for people who focus only on the ethics, and really haven't thought about how the physics and the epistemology relate to the whole:
- Nature / Physics
- Nothing but matter and void
- Nothing comes to nothing or goes to nothing
- Knowledge /Truth
- The senses are reliable witnesses
- Ethics / How to live
- Pleasure is the goal of life
- The Virtues are tools for the achievement of pleasure