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Ideas for Hermarchus, Mengzi (Mencius) and Friedrich Nietzsche
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / a. Preconditions for ethics
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Healthy morality is dominated by an instinct for life [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics
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Morality is a system of values which accompanies a being's life [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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The very idea of a critique of morality is regarded as immoral! [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism
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Morality is merely interpretations, which are extra-moral in origin [Nietzsche]
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Philosophers hate values having an origin, and want values to be self-sufficient [Nietzsche]
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There are no moral facts, and moralists believe in realities which do not exist [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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The history of morality rests on an error called 'responsibility', which rests on an error called 'free will' [Nietzsche]
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Ceasing to believe in human responsibility is bitter, if you had based the nobility of humanity on it [Nietzsche]
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It is absurd to blame nature and necessity; we should no more praise actions than we praise plants or artworks [Nietzsche]
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Nietzsche said the will doesn't exist, so it can't ground moral responsibility [Nietzsche, by Foot]
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None of the ancients had the courage to deny morality by denying free will [Nietzsche]
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The doctrine of free will has been invented essentially in order to blame and punish people [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / h. Against ethics
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Morality prevents us from developing better customs [Nietzsche]
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We must question the very value of moral values [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / a. Idealistic ethics
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The most boring and dangerous of all errors is Plato's invention of pure spirit and goodness [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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Intellect is tied to morality, because it requires good memory and powerful imagination [Nietzsche]
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Philosophy grasps the limits of human reason, and values are beyond it [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism
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Why do you listen to the voice of your conscience? [Nietzsche]
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'Conscience' is invented to value actions by intention and conformity to 'law', rather than consequences [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics
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We created meanings, to maintain ourselves [Nietzsche]
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Nietzsche felt that Plato's views downgraded the human body and its brevity of life [Nietzsche, by Roochnik]
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Values are innate and inherited [Nietzsche]
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Our values express an earlier era's conditions for survival and growth [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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Human nature is naturally compassionate and good (as a 'sprout'), but people may not be good [Mengzi (Mencius), by Norden]
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We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves [Nietzsche]
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Greeks might see modern analysis of what is human as impious [Nietzsche]
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Once a drive controls the intellect, it rules, and sets the goals [Nietzsche]
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Each person has a fixed constitution, which makes them a particular type of person [Nietzsche, by Leiter]
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Nietzsche could only revalue human values for a different species [Nietzsche, by Foot]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / f. Übermensch
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Originally it was the rulers who requited good for good and evil for evil who were called 'good' [Nietzsche]
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Noble people see themselves as the determiners of values [Nietzsche]
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Higher human beings see and hear far more than others, and do it more thoughtfully [Nietzsche]
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The noble man wants new virtues; the good man preserves what is old [Nietzsche]
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The superman is a monstrous oddity, not a serious idea [MacIntyre on Nietzsche]
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Nietzsche's higher type of man is much more important than the idealised 'superman' [Nietzsche, by Leiter]
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Nietzsche's judgement of actions by psychology instead of outcome was poisonous [Foot on Nietzsche]
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Caesar and Napoleon point to the future, when they pursue their task regardless of human sacrifice [Nietzsche]
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Napoleon was very focused, and rightly ignored compassion [Nietzsche]
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The concept of 'good' was created by aristocrats to describe their own actions [Nietzsche]
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A strong rounded person soon forgets enemies, misfortunes, and even misdeeds [Nietzsche]
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There is an extended logic to a great man's life, achieved by a sustained will [Nietzsche]
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The highest man can endure and control the greatest combination of powerful drives [Nietzsche]
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The highest man directs the values of the highest natures over millenia [Nietzsche]
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Christianity is at war with the higher type of man, and excommunicates his basic instincts [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / g. Will to power
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A morality ranks human drives and actions, for the sake of the herd, and subordinating individuals [Nietzsche]
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The 'will to power' is basically applied to drives and forces, not to people [Nietzsche, by Richardson]
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All animals strive for the ideal conditions to express their power, and hate any hindrances [Nietzsche]
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There is a conspiracy (a will to power) to make morality dominate other values, like knowledge and art [Nietzsche]
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The basic tendency of the weak has always been to pull down the strong, using morality [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
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Moral feelings are entirely different from the moral concepts used to judge actions [Nietzsche]
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Treating morality as feelings is just obeying your ancestors [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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Nietzsche thought it 'childish' to say morality isn't binding because it varies between cultures [Nietzsche, by Foot]
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That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / k. Ethics from nature
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Nature is totally indifferent, so you should try to be different from it, not live by it [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value
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Values need a perspective, of preserving some aspect of life [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value
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For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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We always assign values, but we may not value those values [Nietzsche]
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All evaluation is from some perspective, and aims at survival [Nietzsche]
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The ruling drives of our culture all want to be the highest court of our values [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / e. Means and ends
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Knowledge, wisdom and goodness only have value relative to a goal [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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Righteousness is extending the unthinkable, to reveal what must be done [Mengzi (Mencius)]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / c. Life
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Human beings are not majestic, either through divine origins, or through grand aims [Nietzsche]
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A philosopher fails in wisdom if he thinks the value of life is a problem [Nietzsche]
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In every age the wisest people have judged life to be worthless [Nietzsche]
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Value judgements about life can never be true [Nietzsche]
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To evaluate life one must know it, but also be situated outside of it [Nietzsche]
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The value of life cannot be estimated [Nietzsche]
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When we establish values, that is life itself establishing them, through us [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death
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Most dying people have probably lost more important things than what they are about to lose [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism
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No one has ever done anything that was entirely for other people [Nietzsche]
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Altruism is praised by the egoism of the weak, who want everyone to be looked after [Nietzsche]
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How can it be that I should prefer my neighbour to myself, but he should prefer me to himself? [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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We only really love children and work [Nietzsche]
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Simultaneous love and respect are impossible; love has no separation or rank, but respect admits power [Nietzsche]
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Marriage is too serious to be permitted for people in love! [Nietzsche]
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If you love something, it is connected with everything, so all must be affirmed as good [Nietzsche]
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Friendly chats undermine my philosophy; wanting to be right at the expense of love is folly [Nietzsche]
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Love is the spiritualisation of sensuality [Nietzsche]
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Marriage upholds the idea that love, though a passion, can endure [Nietzsche]
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Fear reveals the natures of other people much more clearly than love does [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / h. Fine deeds
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We get enormous pleasure from tales of noble actions [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest
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Egoism should not assume that all egos are equal [Nietzsche]
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The distinction between egoistic and non-egoistic acts is absurd [Nietzsche]
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A living being is totally 'egoistic' [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / c. Right and good
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Morality originally judged people, and actions only later on [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / d. Good as virtue
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A good human will be virtuous because they are happy [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
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Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones [Nietzsche]
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In the earliest phase of human history only consequences mattered [Nietzsche]
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Utilitarians prefer consequences because intentions are unknowable - but so are consequences! [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / i. Moral luck
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Punishment has distorted the pure innocence of the contingency of outcomes [Nietzsche]
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A bad result distorts one's judgement about the virtue of what one has done [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
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Modest people express happiness as 'Not bad' [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
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I want my work, not happiness! [Nietzsche]
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It is a sign of degeneration when eudaimonistic values begin to prevail [Nietzsche]
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Only the English actually strive after happiness [Nietzsche]
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We have no more right to 'happiness' than worms [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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Happiness is the active equilibrium of our drives [Nietzsche]
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We can only achieve happy moments, not happy eras [Nietzsche]
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The shortest path to happiness is forgetfulness, the path of animals (but of little value) [Nietzsche]
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The only happiness is happiness with illusion [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure
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Pleasure needs dissatisfaction, boundaries and resistances [Nietzsche]
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Pleasure and pain are mere epiphenomena, and achievement requires that one desire both [Nietzsche]
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