Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Virtues and Human Nature' and 'Three theses about dispositions'

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9 ideas

17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 2. Potential Behaviour

7435	Dispositions are second-order properties, the property of having some property [Jackson/Pargetter/Prior, by Armstrong]

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

23146

Motives produce intentions, which lead to actions [Driver]

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

23147

Good intentions are not necessary for virtue [Driver]

23144

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

23148

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

23150

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

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

23149

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

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

13304

Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

20820

Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]