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Ideas for Anaxarchus, Churchland / Churchland and Immanuel Kant
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / a. Preconditions for ethics
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Without God, creation and free will, morality would be empty [Kant]
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Duty is impossible without prior moral feeling, conscience, love and self-respect [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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Kant united religion and philosophy, by basing obedience to law on reason instead of faith [Taylor,R on Kant]
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The categorical imperative says nothing about what our activities and ends should be [MacIntyre on Kant]
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Only human reason can confer value on our choices [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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Kant thought human nature was pure hedonism, so virtue is only possible via the categorical imperative [Foot on Kant]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
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Moral principles do not involve feelings [Kant]
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People cannot come to morality through feeling, because morality must not be sensuous [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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We must only value what others find acceptable [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value
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Kant focuses exclusively on human values, and neglects cultural and personal values [Kekes on Kant]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value
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We cannot derive moral laws from experience, as it is the mother of illusion [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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Our rational choices confer value, arising from the sense that we ourselves are important [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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Values are created by human choices, and are not some intrinsic quality, out there [Kant, by Berlin]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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Kant may rate two things as finally valuable: having a good will, and deserving happiness [Orsi on Kant]
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An autonomous agent has dignity [Würde], which has absolute worth [Kant, by Pinkard]
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The good will is unconditionally good, because it is the only possible source of value [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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Good or evil cannot be a thing, but only a maxim of action, making the person good or evil [Kant]
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What is contemplated must have a higher value than contemplation [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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Only a good will can give man's being, and hence the world, a final purpose [Kant]
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The love of man is required in order to present the world as a beautiful and perfect moral whole [Kant]
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All morality directs the will to love of others' ends, and respect for others' rights [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / a. Normativity
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We only understand what exists, and can find no sign of what ought to be in nature [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism
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Reverence is awareness of a value which demolishes my self-love [Kant]
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We may claim noble motives, but we cannot penetrate our secret impulses [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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The duty of love is to makes the ends of others one's own [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
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A good will is not good because of what it achieves [Kant]
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The good of an action is in the mind of the doer, not the consequences [Kant]
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Morality involves duty and respect for law, not love of the outcome [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
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Our happiness is all that matters, not as a sensation, but as satisfaction with our whole existence [Kant]
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Happiness is the condition of a rational being for whom everything goes as they wish [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
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Morality is not about making ourselves happy, but about being worthy of happiness [Kant]
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Duty does not aim at an end, but gives rise to universal happiness as aim of the will [Kant]
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