Combining Philosophers
Ideas for W Wimsatt/W Beardsley, Immanuel Kant and Ned Block
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / a. Preconditions for ethics
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Without God, creation and free will, morality would be empty [Kant]
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Duty is impossible without prior moral feeling, conscience, love and self-respect [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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Kant united religion and philosophy, by basing obedience to law on reason instead of faith [Taylor,R on Kant]
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The categorical imperative says nothing about what our activities and ends should be [MacIntyre on Kant]
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Only human reason can confer value on our choices [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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Kant thought human nature was pure hedonism, so virtue is only possible via the categorical imperative [Foot on Kant]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
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Moral principles do not involve feelings [Kant]
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People cannot come to morality through feeling, because morality must not be sensuous [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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We must only value what others find acceptable [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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