Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Gottfried Leibniz and Augustine
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / a. Preconditions for ethics
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Animals lack morality because they lack self-reflection [Leibniz]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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Humans are moral, and capable of reward and punishment, because of memory and self-consciousness [Leibniz, by Jolley]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death
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Death is just the contraction of an animal [Leibniz]
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Death and generation are just transformations of an animal, augmented or diminished [Leibniz]
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Most people facing death would happily re-live a similar life, with just a bit of variety [Leibniz]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Love is pleasure in the perfection, well-being or happiness of its object [Leibniz]
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Love, and do what you will [Augustine]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / j. Evil
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Metaphysical evil is imperfection; physical evil is suffering; moral evil is sin [Leibniz]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good
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Pagans produced three hundred definitions of the highest good [Augustine, by Grayling]
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The good is the virtuous, the pleasing, or the useful [Leibniz]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
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You can't assess moral actions without referring to the qualities of character that produce them [Leibniz]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
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Happiness is advancement towards perfection [Leibniz]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
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Everyone wants happiness [Augustine]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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Supreme human happiness is the greatest possible increase of his perfection [Leibniz]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure
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Pleasure is a sense of perfection [Leibniz]
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Intelligent pleasure is the perception of beauty, order and perfection [Leibniz]
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