Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Herodotus, D.J. O'Connor and Thomas Hobbes
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
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'Good' is just what we desire, and 'Evil' what we hate [Hobbes]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck]
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Men's natural desires are no sin, and neither are their actions, until law makes it so [Hobbes]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Desire and love are the same, but in the desire the object is absent, and in love it is present [Hobbes]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest
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All voluntary acts aim at some good for the doer [Hobbes]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / c. Right and good
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Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
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Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes]
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