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Ideas for Blaise Pascal, G.E. Moore and Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics
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Moore tries to show that 'good' is indefinable, but doesn't understand what a definition is [MacIntyre on Moore,GE]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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Modern moral theory concerns settling conflicts, rather than human fulfilment [Zagzebski]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / a. Idealistic ethics
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The Open Question argument leads to anti-realism and the fact-value distinction [Boulter on Moore,GE]
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The naturalistic fallacy claims that natural qualties can define 'good' [Moore,GE]
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Moore cannot show why something being good gives us a reason for action [MacIntyre on Moore,GE]
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Can learning to recognise a good friend help us to recognise a good watch? [MacIntyre on Moore,GE]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism
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Moore's combination of antinaturalism with strong supervenience on the natural is incoherent [Hanna on Moore,GE]
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Despite Moore's caution, non-naturalists incline towards intuitionism [Moore,GE, by Smith,M]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river [Pascal]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value
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We should ask what we would judge to be good if it existed in absolute isolation [Moore,GE]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good [Pascal]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good
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It is always an open question whether anything that is natural is good [Moore,GE]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good
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The three main values are good, right and beauty [Moore,GE, by Ross]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / c. Right and good
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For Moore, 'right' is what produces good [Moore,GE, by Ross]
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'Right' means 'cause of good result' (hence 'useful'), so the end does justify the means [Moore,GE]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / i. Moral luck
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Moral luck means our praise and blame may exceed our control or awareness [Zagzebski]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia
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Nowadays we doubt the Greek view that the flourishing of individuals and communities are linked [Zagzebski]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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We live for the past or future, and so are never happy in the present [Pascal]
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