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

7407	Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes]

9228	Ranking order of desires reveals nothing, because none of them may be considered important [Frankfurt]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility

9270	A 'wanton' is not a person, because they lack second-order volitions [Frankfurt]

9269	A person may be morally responsible without free will [Frankfurt]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

9238	Morality isn't based on reason; moral indignation is quite unlike disapproval of irrationality [Frankfurt]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

2360	'Good' is just what we desire, and 'Evil' what we hate [Hobbes]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

7410	Self-preservation is basic, and people judge differently about that, implying ethical relativism [Hobbes, by Tuck]

2368	Men's natural desires are no sin, and neither are their actions, until law makes it so [Hobbes]