Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Reasons for Actions and Desires' and 'Goodness and Choice'

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4 ideas

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

22393

I don't understand the idea of a reason for acting, but it is probably the agent's interests or desires [Foot]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / b. Successful function

22381

Being a good father seems to depend on intentions, rather than actual abilities [Foot]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

5996	Critolaus redefined Aristotle's moral aim as fulfilment instead of happiness [Critolaus, by White,SA]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 3. Natural Function

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Some words, such as 'knife', have a meaning which involves its function [Foot]