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Ideas for Chrysippus, Aenesidemus and A.J. Ayer
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics
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Some people think there are ethical facts, but of a 'queer' sort [Ayer]
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A right attitude is just an attitude one is prepared to stand by [Ayer]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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Moral theories are all meta-ethical, and are neutral as regards actual conduct [Ayer]
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Moral judgements cannot be the logical consequence of a moral philosophy [Ayer]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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Fate initiates general causes, but individual wills and characters dictate what we do [Chrysippus]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / h. Against ethics
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There is no universal goal to human life [Aenesidemus, by Photius]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism
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Moral intuition is worthless if there is no criterion to decide between intuitions [Ayer]
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I would describe intuitions of good as feelings of approval [Ayer]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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Human purpose is to contemplate and imitate the cosmos [Chrysippus]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
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Ayer defends the emotivist version of expressivism [Ayer, by Smith,M]
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To say an act is wrong makes no further statement about it, but merely expresses disapproval [Ayer]
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Approval of historical or fictional murders gives us leave to imitate them [Ayer]
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Moral judgements are not expressions, but are elements in a behaviour pattern [Ayer]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism
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Moral approval and disapproval concerns classes of actions, rather than particular actions [Ayer]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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Stoics say justice is a part of nature, not just an invented principle [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / k. Ethics from nature
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Only nature is available to guide action and virtue [Chrysippus]
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