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Ideas for Sigmund Freud, George Santayana and Thomas M. Scanlon

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch]
The good is not relative, but is rooted in facts about human needs [Santayana]