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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Rationality and Virtue' and 'Prolegomena to Ethics'

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9 ideas

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason
22480 Possessing the virtue of justice disposes a person to good practical rationality [Foot]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / a. Idealistic ethics
23035 The good life aims at perfections, or absolute laws, or what is absolutely desirable [Green,TH]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
22477 Calling a knife or farmer or speech or root good does not involve attitudes or feelings [Foot]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / b. Basis of virtue
22478 The essential thing is the 'needs' of plants and animals, and their operative parts [Foot]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice
22479 Observing justice is necessary to humans, like hunting to wolves or dancing to bees [Foot]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / c. Liberal equality
23037 People are improved by egalitarian institutions and habits [Green,TH]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / e. Liberal community
23043 All talk of the progress of a nation must reduce to the progress of its individual members [Green,TH]
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]