Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Melvin Fitting, Aristotle and Victor Velarde-Mayol
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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We aim not to identify goodness, but to be good [Aristotle]
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We must take for granted that we should act according to right principle [Aristotle]
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There is no fixed art of good conduct, and each situation is different, as in navigation [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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Acts are voluntary if done knowingly, by the agent, and in his power to avoid it [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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Men are physically prime at thirty-five, and mentally prime at forty-nine [Aristotle]
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Perhaps we get a better account of happiness as the good for man if we know his function [Aristotle]
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If bodily organs have functions, presumably the whole person has one [Aristotle]
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To eat vast amounts is unnatural, since natural desire is to replenish the deficiency [Aristotle]
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What is natural for us is either there at birth, or appears by normal processes [Aristotle]
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Aristotle never actually says that man is a rational animal [Aristotle, by Fogelin]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / f. Übermensch
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For the great-souled man it is sometimes better to be dead [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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We all feel universal right and wrong, independent of any community or contracts [Aristotle]
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Aristotle said there are two levels of virtue - the conventional and the intellectual [Taylor,R on Aristotle]
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Moral acts are so varied that they must be convention, not nature [Aristotle]
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Some say slavery is unnatural and created by convention, and is therefore forced, and unjust [Aristotle]
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