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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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Acts are voluntary if done knowingly, by the agent, and in his power to avoid it [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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What is natural for us is either there at birth, or appears by normal processes [Aristotle]
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Aristotle never actually says that man is a rational animal [Aristotle, by Fogelin]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism
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Hare says I acquire an agglomeration of preferences by role-reversal, leading to utilitarianism [Hare, by Williams,B]
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If we have to want the preferences of the many, we have to abandon our own deeply-held views [Williams,B on Hare]
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If morality is to be built on identification with the preferences of others, I must agree with their errors [Williams,B on Hare]
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A judgement is presciptive if we expect it to be acted on [Hare]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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No one would choose life just for activities not done for their own sake [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / b. Successful function
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Wearing a shoe is its intrinsic use, and selling it (as a shoe) is its coincidental use [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / d. Health
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Everything seeks, not a single good, but its own separate good [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
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We judge people from their deeds because we cannot see their choices (which matter more) [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
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Horses, birds and fish are not happy, lacking a divine aspect to their natures [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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Happiness involves three things, of which the greatest is either wisdom, virtue, or pleasure [Aristotle]
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