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All the ideas for 'Laches', 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong' and 'Cognition of Value in Aristotle's Ethics'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

291	Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4761	The 'error theory' of morals says there is no moral knowledge, because there are no moral facts [Mackie, by Engel]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

4375	Evaluations are not disguised emotions; instead, emotion is a type of evaluation [Achtenberg]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage

293	Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato]