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Ideas for 'works', 'Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / c. Purpose of ethics

6850	Wittgenstein pared his life down in his search for decency [Monk]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

6237	Fear of God is not conscience, which is a natural feeling of offence at bad behaviour [Shaftesbury]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

6559	Aristotle never actually says that man is a rational animal [Aristotle, by Fogelin]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

6234	If an irrational creature with kind feelings was suddenly given reason, its reason would approve of kind feelings [Shaftesbury]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

6233	A person isn't good if only tying their hands prevents their mischief, so the affections decide a person's morality [Shaftesbury]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / d. Sources of pleasure

6236	People more obviously enjoy social pleasures than they do eating and drinking [Shaftesbury]