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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / a. Preconditions for ethics
2902 Healthy morality is dominated by an instinct for life [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
9228 Ranking order of desires reveals nothing, because none of them may be considered important [Frankfurt]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism
18311 Philosophers hate values having an origin, and want values to be self-sufficient [Nietzsche]
18324 There are no moral facts, and moralists believe in realities which do not exist [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
2904 The doctrine of free will has been invented essentially in order to blame and punish people [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
9238 Morality isn't based on reason; moral indignation is quite unlike disapproval of irrationality [Frankfurt]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
9234 If you don't care about at least one thing, you can't find reasons to care about anything [Frankfurt]
9232 It is by caring about things that we infuse the world with importance [Frankfurt]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
9233 Our criteria for evaluating how to live offer an answer to the problem [Frankfurt]
9229 What is worthwhile for its own sake alone may be worth very little [Frankfurt]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / c. Life
18321 To evaluate life one must know it, but also be situated outside of it [Nietzsche]
18308 A philosopher fails in wisdom if he thinks the value of life is a problem [Nietzsche]
18322 When we establish values, that is life itself establishing them, through us [Nietzsche]
2893 In every age the wisest people have judged life to be worthless [Nietzsche]
2894 Value judgements about life can never be true [Nietzsche]
2895 The value of life cannot be estimated [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
9236 Love can be cool, and it may not involve liking its object [Frankfurt]
18319 Love is the spiritualisation of sensuality [Nietzsche]
9235 Rather than loving things because we value them, I think we value things because we love them [Frankfurt]
9237 The paradigm case of pure love is not romantic, but that between parents and infants [Frankfurt]
9239 I value my children for their sake, but I also value my love for them for its own sake [Frankfurt]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / d. Good as virtue
2903 A good human will be virtuous because they are happy [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
2891 Only the English actually strive after happiness [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
9227 We might not choose a very moral life, if the character or constitution was deficient [Frankfurt]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure
9230 People want to fulfill their desires, but also for their desires to be sustained [Frankfurt]