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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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Ranking order of desires reveals nothing, because none of them may be considered important [Frankfurt]
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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 / b. Rational ethics
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Morality isn't based on reason; moral indignation is quite unlike disapproval of irrationality [Frankfurt]
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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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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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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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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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It is by caring about things that we infuse the world with importance [Frankfurt]
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If you don't care about at least one thing, you can't find reasons to care about anything [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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Live in agreement, according to experience of natural events [Chrysippus]
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What is worthwhile for its own sake alone may be worth very little [Frankfurt]
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Our criteria for evaluating how to live offer an answer to the problem [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Rather than loving things because we value them, I think we value things because we love them [Frankfurt]
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Love can be cool, and it may not involve liking its object [Frankfurt]
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The paradigm case of pure love is not romantic, but that between parents and infants [Frankfurt]
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I value my children for their sake, but I also value my love for them for its own sake [Frankfurt]
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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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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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We might not choose a very moral life, if the character or constitution was deficient [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure
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People want to fulfill their desires, but also for their desires to be sustained [Frankfurt]
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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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