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15 ideas
| 5906 | Promise-keeping is bound by the past, and is not concerned with consequences [Ross] |
| 18622 | Promises create a new duty to a particular person; they aren't just a strategy to achieve well-being [Ross] |
| 5908 | Prima facie duties rest self-evidently on particular circumstance [Ross] |
| 5917 | People lose their rights if they do not respect the rights of others [Ross] |
| 3261 | Something may be 'rational' either because it is required or because it is acceptable [Nagel] |
| 5900 | We should do our duty, but not from a sense of duty [Ross] |
| 5942 | We like people who act from love, but admire more the people who act from duty [Ross] |
| 5909 | Be faithful, grateful, just, beneficent, non-malevolent, and improve yourself [Ross, by PG] |
| 3258 | If cockroaches can't think about their actions, they have no duties [Nagel] |
| 3254 | If we can decide how to live after stepping outside of ourselves, we have the basis of a moral theory [Nagel] |
| 3264 | We should see others' viewpoints, but not lose touch with our own values [Nagel] |
| 5914 | An act may be described in innumerable ways [Ross] |
| 3255 | We find new motives by discovering reasons for action different from our preexisting motives [Nagel] |
| 5912 | We should use money to pay debts before giving to charity [Ross] |
| 3262 | Utilitarianism is too demanding [Nagel] |