Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Saunders MacLane, E.M. Cioran and Harry G. Frankfurt
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / c. Purpose of ethics
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At a civilisation's peak values are all that matters, and people unconsciously live by them [Cioran]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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Ranking order of desires reveals nothing, because none of them may be considered important [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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A 'wanton' is not a person, because they lack second-order volitions [Frankfurt]
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A person may be morally responsible without free will [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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Morality isn't based on reason; moral indignation is quite unlike disapproval of irrationality [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value
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Values don't accumulate; they are ruthlessly replaced [Cioran]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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It is by caring about things that we infuse the world with importance [Frankfurt]
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If you don't care about at least one thing, you can't find reasons to care about anything [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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What is worthwhile for its own sake alone may be worth very little [Frankfurt]
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Our criteria for evaluating how to live offer an answer to the problem [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Rather than loving things because we value them, I think we value things because we love them [Frankfurt]
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The paradigm case of pure love is not romantic, but that between parents and infants [Frankfurt]
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I value my children for their sake, but I also value my love for them for its own sake [Frankfurt]
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Lovers are hateful, apart from their hovering awareness of death [Cioran]
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Love can be cool, and it may not involve liking its object [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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We might not choose a very moral life, if the character or constitution was deficient [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure
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People want to fulfill their desires, but also for their desires to be sustained [Frankfurt]
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