Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Thomas Hobbes, A.E. Taylor and Harry G. Frankfurt
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes]
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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 / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
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'Good' is just what we desire, and 'Evil' what we hate [Hobbes]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck]
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Men's natural desires are no sin, and neither are their actions, until law makes it so [Hobbes]
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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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There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes]
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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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Desire and love are the same, but in the desire the object is absent, and in love it is present [Hobbes]
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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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Love can be cool, and it may not involve liking its object [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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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest
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All voluntary acts aim at some good for the doer [Hobbes]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / c. Right and good
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Hobbes shifted from talk of 'the good' to talk of 'rights' [Hobbes, by Tuck]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
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Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes]
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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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