Combining Texts
Ideas for
'fragments/reports', 'The Moral Problem' and 'fragments/reports'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
20 ideas
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / e. Ethical cognitivism
429
|
To God (though not to humans) all things are beautiful and good and just [Heraclitus]
|
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 / 1. Nature of Ethics / h. Against ethics
23731
|
'Externalists' say moral judgements are not reasons, and maybe not even motives [Smith,M]
|
23732
|
A person could make a moral judgement without being in any way motivated by it [Smith,M]
|
12294
|
Good and evil are the same thing [Heraclitus, by Aristotle]
|
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
23729
|
Moral internalism says a judgement of rightness is thereby motivating [Smith,M]
|
23730
|
'Rationalism' says the rightness of an action is a reason to perform it [Smith,M]
|
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
20813
|
Human purpose is to contemplate and imitate the cosmos [Chrysippus]
|
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
23727
|
Expressivists count attitudes as 'moral' if they concern features of things, rather than their mere existence [Smith,M]
|
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]
|
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
23741
|
Is valuing something a matter of believing or a matter of desiring? [Smith,M]
|
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / e. Means and ends
419
|
If one does not hope, one will not find the unhoped-for, since nothing leads to it [Heraclitus]
|
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
20864
|
Live in agreement, according to experience of natural events [Chrysippus]
|
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
415
|
If happiness is bodily pleasure, then oxen are happy when they have vetch to eat [Heraclitus]
|
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 / 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]
|
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / f. Dangers of pleasure
5155
|
It is hard to fight against emotion, but harder still to fight against pleasure [Heraclitus]
|