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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom' and 'Essays on Active Powers 3: Princs of action'

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7 ideas

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
If an attempted poisoning results in benefits, we still judge the agent a poisoner [Reid]
Consequentialism wrongly assumes a clear line between an act and its consequences [Crisp,R]
23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism
The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]
23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 2. Golden Rule
We shouldn't do to others what would be a wrong to us in similar circumstances [Reid]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / b. Basis of virtue
To be virtuous, we must care about duty [Reid]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / e. Honour
Every worthy man has a principle of honour, and knows what is honourable [Reid]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 4. Ecology
Does the environment have value in itself? [Crisp,R]