Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Euthyphro', 'Ruling Passions' and 'Varieties of Meaning'

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5 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 6. Relativism Critique

335	Do the gods also hold different opinions about what is right and honourable? [Plato]

18. Thought / C. Content / 11. Teleological Semantics

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Biosemantics says content is useful mapping from a producer to a consumer system [Millikan, by Schulte]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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Akrasia is intelligible in hindsight, when we revisit our previous emotions [Blackburn]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question

336	Is what is pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it? (the 'Euthyphro Question') [Plato]

337	It seems that the gods love things because they are pious, rather than making them pious by loving them [Plato]