Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Protagoras, Boethius and Francis Hutcheson
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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Rewards and punishments are not deserved if they don't arise from free movement of the mind [Boethius]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism
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We approve of actions by a superior moral sense [Hutcheson]
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We dislike a traitor, even if they give us great benefit [Hutcheson]
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The moral sense is not an innate idea, but an ability to approve or disapprove in a disinterested way [Hutcheson]
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We cannot choose our moral feelings, otherwise bribery could affect them [Hutcheson]
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Everyone feels uneasy when seeing others in pain, unless the others are evil [Hutcheson]
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Can't the moral sense make mistakes, as the other senses do? [Hutcheson]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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When people fall into wickedness they lose their human nature [Boethius]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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Early sophists thought convention improved nature; later they said nature was diminished by it [Protagoras, by Miller,FD]
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