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Ideas for Micklethwait,J/Wooldridge,A, Isaiah and Baruch de Spinoza

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism
Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
Men only agree in nature if they are guided by reason [Spinoza]
We seek our own advantage, and virtue is doing this rationally [Spinoza]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
Along with his pantheism, Spinoza equates ethics with the study of human nature [Spinoza, by MacIntyre]
The essence of man is modifications of the nature of God [Spinoza]
By 'good' I mean what brings us ever closer to our model of human nature [Spinoza]
If infancy in humans was very rare, we would consider it a pitiful natural defect [Spinoza]