Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Plotinus, Martha Nussbaum and Francesco Orsi
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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The Soul reasons about the Right, so there must be some permanent Right about which it reasons [Plotinus]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value
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Value-maker concepts (such as courageous or elegant) simultaneously describe and evaluate [Orsi]
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The '-able' concepts (like enviable) say this thing deserves a particular response [Orsi]
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Final value is favoured for its own sake, and personal value for someone's sake [Orsi]
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Things are only valuable if something makes it valuable, and we can ask for the reason [Orsi]
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A complex value is not just the sum of the values of the parts [Orsi]
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Trichotomy Thesis: comparable values must be better, worse or the same [Orsi]
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The Fitting Attitude view says values are fitting or reasonable, and values are just byproducts [Orsi]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value
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Values from reasons has the 'wrong kind of reason' problem - admiration arising from fear [Orsi]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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A thing may have final value, which is still derived from other values, or from relations [Orsi]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / a. Normativity
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Truths about value entail normative truths about actions or attitudes [Orsi]
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The Buck-Passing view of normative values says other properties are reasons for the value [Orsi]
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Values can be normative in the Fitting Attitude account, where 'good' means fitting favouring [Orsi]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
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Ecstasy is for the neo-Platonist the highest psychological state of man [Plotinus, by Feuerbach]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia
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Philosophers after Aristotle endorsed the medical analogy for eudaimonia [Nussbaum, by Flanagan]
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