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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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We aim not to identify goodness, but to be good [Aristotle]
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We must take for granted that we should act according to right principle [Aristotle]
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There is no fixed art of good conduct, and each situation is different, as in navigation [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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Fate initiates general causes, but individual wills and characters dictate what we do [Chrysippus]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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Human purpose is to contemplate and imitate the cosmos [Chrysippus]
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Perhaps we get a better account of happiness as the good for man if we know his function [Aristotle]
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If bodily organs have functions, presumably the whole person has one [Aristotle]
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To eat vast amounts is unnatural, since natural desire is to replenish the deficiency [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / f. Übermensch
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For the great-souled man it is sometimes better to be dead [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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Aristotle said there are two levels of virtue - the conventional and the intellectual [Taylor,R on Aristotle]
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Moral acts are so varied that they must be convention, not nature [Aristotle]
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Stoics say justice is a part of nature, not just an invented principle [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / k. Ethics from nature
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Only nature is available to guide action and virtue [Chrysippus]
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