Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Pythagoras, Archimedes and Edmund O. Wilson
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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Philosophers study the consequences of ethics instead of its origins [Wilson,EO]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics
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Genetic behaviours that have enhanced human success include aggression, rape and xenophobia [Wilson,EO, by Okasha]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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The rules of human decision-making converge and overlap in a 'human nature' [Wilson,EO]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / d. Health
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Pythagoras taught that virtue is harmony, and health, and universal good, and God [Pythagoras, by Diog. Laertius]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism
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We undermine altruism by rewarding it, but we reward it to encourage it [Wilson,EO]
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Pure hard-core altruism based on kin selection is the enemy of civilisation [Wilson,EO]
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