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All the ideas for 'reports', 'Oldest System Prog. of German Idealism' and 'Moral Thinking: Its Levels,Method and Point'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason

7083	Highest reason is aesthetic, and truth and good are subordinate to beauty [Hegel]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]

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

4125	Hare says I acquire an agglomeration of preferences by role-reversal, leading to utilitarianism [Hare, by Williams,B]

4126	If we have to want the preferences of the many, we have to abandon our own deeply-held views [Williams,B on Hare]

4127	If morality is to be built on identification with the preferences of others, I must agree with their errors [Williams,B on Hare]

22483

A judgement is presciptive if we expect it to be acted on [Hare]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 8. Contract Strategies

4360	By far the easiest way of seeming upright is to be upright [Hare]