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Expansion for Metaethics

		1051	1.	Philosophy
		624	2.	Reason
		626	3.	Truth
		784	4.	Formal Logic
		1242	5.	Theory of Logic
		1188	6.	Mathematics
		1042	7.	Existence
		881	8.	Modes of Existence
		1527	9.	Objects
		799	10.	Modality
		485	11.	Knowledge Aims
		713	12.	Knowledge Sources
		633	13.	Knowledge Criteria
		675	14.	Science
		548	15.	Nature of Minds
		494	16.	Persons
		495	17.	Mind and Body
		858	18.	Thought
		835	19.	Language
		313	20.	Action
		270	21.	Aesthetics

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	973	22.	Metaethics
		A.	Value
	9	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
	58			e.	Human nature
	18			f.	Übermensch
	8			g.	Will to power
	30			h.	Expressivism
	17			i.	Prescriptivism
	29			j.	Ethics by convention
	11			k.	Ethics from nature
		B.	The Good
	25	1.	Nature of Value	a.	Nature of value
	25			b.	Fact and value
	9			c.	Objective value
	17			d.	Subjective value
	9			e.	Means and ends
	34			f.	Ultimate value
	8	2.	Values	a.	Normativity
	9			b.	Successful function
	10			c.	Life
	11			d.	Health
	27			e.	Death
	16			f.	Altruism
	56			g.	Love
	10			h.	Fine deeds
	18			i.	Self-interest
	9			j.	Evil
		C.	The Good
	25	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
	32			d.	Routes to happiness
	10	3.	Pleasure	a.	Nature of pleasure
	16			b.	Types of pleasure
	27			c.	Value of pleasure
	9			d.	Sources of pleasure
	13			e.	Role of pleasure
	14			f.	Dangers of pleasure

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		991	23.	Ethics
		924	24.	Political Theory
		752	25.	Social Practice
		992	26.	Natural Theory
		719	27.	Natural Reality
		429	28.	God
		302	29.	Religion