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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / d. Good as virtue
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Living happily is nothing but living virtuously [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / f. Good as pleasure
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Pleasure is not the good, because there are disgraceful pleasures [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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Justice can be preserved if pleasure is a good, but not if it is the goal [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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Music is good for a melancholic, bad for a mourner, and indifferent to the deaf [Spinoza]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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Man's highest happiness consists of perfecting his understanding, or reason [Spinoza]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure
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Pleasure is a passive state in which the mind increases in perfection [Spinoza]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / c. Value of pleasure
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There are shameful pleasures, and nothing shameful is good, so pleasure is not a good [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / f. Dangers of pleasure
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Pleasure is only bad in so far as it hinders a man's capability for action [Spinoza]
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