Ideas from 'On Eternal and Immutable Morality' by Ralph Cudworth [1688], by Theme Structure

[found in 'British Moralists 1650-1800 Vol. 1' (ed/tr Raphael,D.D.) [Hackett 1991,0-87220-120-1]].

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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / c. Tabula rasa

6230	If the soul were a tabula rasa, with no innate ideas, there could be no moral goodness or justice

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique

6228	Senses cannot judge one another, so what judges senses cannot be a sense, but must be superior

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 7. Anti-Physicalism / a. Physicalism critique

6229	Sense is fixed in the material form, and so can't grasp abstract universals

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value

6227	Keeping promises and contracts is an obligation of natural justice

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / c. Natural law

6225	Obligation to obey all positive laws is older than all laws

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions

6224	An omnipotent will cannot make two things equal or alike if they aren't

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality

6223	If the will and pleasure of God controls justice, then anything wicked or unjust would become good if God commanded it

6226	The requirement that God must be obeyed must precede any authority of God's commands