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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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Moral reason is not just neutral, because morality is part of the standard of rationality [Foot, by Hacker-Wright]
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Practical rationality must weigh both what is morally and what is non-morally required [Foot]
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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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Moral virtues arise from human nature, as part of what makes us good human beings [Foot, by Hacker-Wright]
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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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Sterility is a human defect, but the choice to be childless is not [Foot]
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Virtues are as necessary to humans as stings are to bees [Foot]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value
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Moral evaluations are not separate from facts, but concern particular facts about functioning [Foot]
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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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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 / a. Nature of happiness
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Deep happiness usually comes from the basic things in life [Foot]
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Happiness is enjoying the pursuit and attainment of right ends [Foot]
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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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