Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Reply to Second Objections' and 'The Virtues and Human Nature'

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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito

3622	The Cogito is not a syllogism but a self-evident intuition [Descartes]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

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Motives produce intentions, which lead to actions [Driver]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue

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Virtue should be defined by consequences, not by states of mind [Driver]

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Virtues are character traits or dispositions which produce good consequences for others [Driver]

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Control of pregnancy and knowledge of paternity have downgraded chastity [Driver]

23147

Good intentions are not necessary for virtue [Driver]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

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Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche]

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If generosity systematically turned recipients into parasites, it wouldn't be a virtue [Driver]