Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Hermarchus, Gilbert Harman and Roger Scruton

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / a. Preconditions for ethics

4284	All moral life depends ultimately on piety, which is our recognition of our own dependence [Scruton]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

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Beauty (unlike truth and goodness) is questionable as an ultimate value [Scruton]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / d. Good as virtue

5121	Basing ethics on flourishing makes it consequentialist, as actions are judged by contributing to it [Harman]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

5122	Maybe consequentialism is a critique of ordinary morality, rather than describing it [Harman]

7590	Consequentialism emphasises value rather than obligation in morality [Scruton]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

5120	What counts as 'flourishing' must be relative to various sets of values [Harman]