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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics
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I suggest that we forget about trying to define goodness itself for the time being [Plato]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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Modern moral theory concerns settling conflicts, rather than human fulfilment [Zagzebski]
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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 / a. Idealistic ethics
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The good cannot be expressed in words, but imprints itself upon the soul [Plato, by Celsus]
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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 / f. Übermensch
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Plato found that he could only enforce rational moral justification by creating an authoritarian society [Williams,B on Plato]
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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 / b. Fact and value
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Plato measured the degree of reality by the degree of value [Nietzsche on Plato]
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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 / B. Value / 2. Values / b. Successful function
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If something has a function then it has a state of being good [Plato]
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A thing's function is what it alone can do, or what it does better than other things [Plato]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / d. Health
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Goodness is mental health, badness is mental sickness [Plato]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest
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If we were invisible, would the just man become like the unjust? [Plato]
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Clever criminals do well at first, but not in the long run [Plato]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good
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The main aim is to understand goodness, which gives everything its value and advantage [Plato]
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Every person, and every activity, aims at the good [Plato]
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Good has the same role in the world of knowledge as the sun has in the physical world [Plato]
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The sight of goodness leads to all that is fine and true and right [Plato]
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Goodness makes truth and knowledge possible [Plato]
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Bad is always destructive, where good preserves and benefits [Plato]
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For Plato we abandon honour and pleasure once we see the Good [Plato, by Taylor,C]
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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 / e. Good as knowledge
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Pleasure is commonly thought to be the good, though the more ingenious prefer knowledge [Plato]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / f. Good as pleasure
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Even people who think pleasure is the good admit that there are bad pleasures [Plato]
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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 / 1. Goodness / i. Moral luck
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Moral luck means our praise and blame may exceed our control or awareness [Zagzebski]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia
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Nowadays we doubt the Greek view that the flourishing of individuals and communities are linked [Zagzebski]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / b. Types of pleasure
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Nice smells are intensive, have no preceding pain, and no bad after-effect [Plato]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / c. Value of pleasure
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Philosophers are concerned with totally non-physical pleasures [Plato]
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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 / d. Sources of pleasure
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There are three types of pleasure, for reason, for spirit and for appetite [Plato]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / f. Dangers of pleasure
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Pleasure-seekers desperately seek illusory satisfaction, like filling a leaky vessel [Plato]
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Excessive pleasure deranges people, making the other virtues impossible [Plato]
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