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Ideas for Philodemus, Lars Svendsen and Thomas Hobbes

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory

7407	Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

2360	'Good' is just what we desire, and 'Evil' what we hate [Hobbes]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

7410	Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck]

2368	Men's natural desires are no sin, and neither are their actions, until law makes it so [Hobbes]

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

6209	There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

9304	Death appears to be more frightening the less one has lived [Svendsen]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

2359	Desire and love are the same, but in the desire the object is absent, and in love it is present [Hobbes]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest

2370	All voluntary acts aim at some good for the doer [Hobbes]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / c. Right and good

7409	Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness

6210	Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes]