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Expansion for Metaethics

		1061	1.	Philosophy
		635	2.	Reason
		630	3.	Truth
		784	4.	Formal Logic
		1246	5.	Theory of Logic
		1191	6.	Mathematics
		1062	7.	Existence
		896	8.	Modes of Existence
		1531	9.	Objects
		800	10.	Modality
		490	11.	Knowledge Aims
		718	12.	Knowledge Sources
		636	13.	Knowledge Criteria
		688	14.	Science
		564	15.	Nature of Minds
		499	16.	Persons
		497	17.	Mind and Body
		873	18.	Thought
		841	19.	Language
		323	20.	Action
		272	21.	Aesthetics

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	989	22.	Metaethics
		A.	Value
	10	1.	Nature of Ethics	a.	Preconditions for ethics
	15			b.	Defining ethics
	8			c.	Purpose of ethics
	29			d.	Ethical theory
	7			e.	Ethical cognitivism
	10			f.	Ethical non-cognitivism
	38			g.	Moral responsibility
	8			h.	Against ethics
	11	2.	Source of Ethics	a.	Idealistic ethics
	33			b.	Rational ethics
	31			c.	Ethical intuitionism
	10			d.	Biological ethics
	59			e.	Human nature
	18			f.	Übermensch
	8			g.	Will to power
	30			h.	Expressivism
	17			i.	Prescriptivism
	29			j.	Ethics by convention
	12			k.	Ethics from nature
		B.	The Good
	26	1.	Nature of Value	a.	Nature of value
	25			b.	Fact and value
	10			c.	Objective value
	17			d.	Subjective value
	9			e.	Means and ends
	38			f.	Ultimate value
	8	2.	Values	a.	Normativity
	9			b.	Successful function
	10			c.	Life
	11			d.	Health
	28			e.	Death
	18			f.	Altruism
	57			g.	Love
	10			h.	Fine deeds
	18			i.	Self-interest
	9			j.	Evil
		C.	The Good
	26	1.	Goodness	a.	Form of the Good
	19			b.	Types of good
	12			c.	Right and good
	6			d.	Good as virtue
	6			e.	Good as knowledge
	16			f.	Good as pleasure
	34			g.	Consequentialism
	5			h.	Good as benefit
	9			i.	Moral luck
	18	2.	Happiness	a.	Nature of happiness
	15			b.	Eudaimonia
	14			c.	Value of happiness
	33			d.	Routes to happiness
	10	3.	Pleasure	a.	Nature of pleasure
	16			b.	Types of pleasure
	27			c.	Value of pleasure
	10			d.	Sources of pleasure
	13			e.	Role of pleasure
	14			f.	Dangers of pleasure

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		1002	23.	Ethics
		973	24.	Political Theory
		773	25.	Social Practice
		1001	26.	Natural Theory
		729	27.	Natural Reality
		429	28.	God
		309	29.	Religion