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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
20838 Fate initiates general causes, but individual wills and characters dictate what we do [Chrysippus]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
5074 Kant united religion and philosophy, by basing obedience to law on reason instead of faith [Taylor,R on Kant]
8024 The categorical imperative says nothing about what our activities and ends should be [MacIntyre on Kant]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
20813 Human purpose is to contemplate and imitate the cosmos [Chrysippus]
22390 Kant thought human nature was pure hedonism, so virtue is only possible via the categorical imperative [Foot on Kant]
20128 Each person has a fixed constitution, which makes them a particular type of person [Nietzsche, by Leiter]
22503 Nietzsche could only revalue human values for a different species [Nietzsche, by Foot]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / f. Übermensch
8041 The superman is a monstrous oddity, not a serious idea [MacIntyre on Nietzsche]
20135 Nietzsche's higher type of man is much more important than the idealised 'superman' [Nietzsche, by Leiter]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / g. Will to power
20353 The 'will to power' is basically applied to drives and forces, not to people [Nietzsche, by Richardson]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
3045 Stoics say justice is a part of nature, not just an invented principle [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
9750 We must only value what others find acceptable [Kant, by Korsgaard]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / k. Ethics from nature
20774 Only nature is available to guide action and virtue [Chrysippus]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value
20160 Kant focuses exclusively on human values, and neglects cultural and personal values [Kekes on Kant]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
9749 Our rational choices confer value, arising from the sense that we ourselves are important [Kant, by Korsgaard]
7671 Values are created by human choices, and are not some intrinsic quality, out there [Kant, by Berlin]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
20864 Live in agreement, according to experience of natural events [Chrysippus]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism
3720 We may claim noble motives, but we cannot penetrate our secret impulses [Kant]
3717 Reverence is awareness of a value which demolishes my self-love [Kant]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
20113 Friendly chats undermine my philosophy; wanting to be right at the expense of love is folly [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / d. Good as virtue
5972 Living happily is nothing but living virtuously [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / f. Good as pleasure
1777 Pleasure is not the good, because there are disgraceful pleasures [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
5973 Justice can be preserved if pleasure is a good, but not if it is the goal [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
3725 The good of an action is in the mind of the doer, not the consequences [Kant]
3712 A good will is not good because of what it achieves [Kant]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / c. Value of pleasure
20845 There are shameful pleasures, and nothing shameful is good, so pleasure is not a good [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]