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Ideas for Alcmaeon, Boethius and Alasdair MacIntyre
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / c. Purpose of ethics
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The good life for man is the life spent seeking the good life for man [MacIntyre]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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We still have the appearance and language of morality, but we no longer understand it [MacIntyre]
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Unlike expressions of personal preference, evaluative expressions do not depend on context [MacIntyre]
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Moral judgements now are anachronisms from a theistic age [MacIntyre]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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Rewards and punishments are not deserved if they don't arise from free movement of the mind [Boethius]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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The failure of Enlightenment attempts to justify morality will explain our own culture [MacIntyre]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism
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Mention of 'intuition' in morality means something has gone wrong with the argument [MacIntyre]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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When people fall into wickedness they lose their human nature [Boethius]
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When 'man' is thought of individually, apart from all roles, it ceases to be a functional concept [MacIntyre]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
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In trying to explain the type of approval involved, emotivists are either silent, or viciously circular [MacIntyre]
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The expression of feeling in a sentence is in its use, not in its meaning [MacIntyre]
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Emotivism cannot explain the logical terms in moral discourse ('therefore', 'if..then') [MacIntyre]
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Nowadays most people are emotivists, and it is embodied in our culture [MacIntyre]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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Sophists don't distinguish a person outside one social order from someone outside all order [MacIntyre]
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