Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'What We Owe to Each Other' and 'Freedom and Reason'

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5 ideas

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

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Moral statements are imperatives rather than the avowals of emotion - but universalisable [Hare, by Glock]

22484

Universalised prescriptivism could be seen as implying utilitarianism [Hare, by 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]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

20992

Right and wrong concerns what other people cannot reasonably reject [Scanlon]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 4. Categorical Imperative

6449	The categorical imperative leads to utilitarianism [Hare, by Nagel]