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Ideas for B Hale / C Wright, Plato and Jean-Paul Sartre

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23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism
2166 We should behave well even if invisible, for the health of the mind [Plato]
1636 Wickedness is an illness of the soul [Plato]
23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 2. Hedonism
388 Hedonists must say that someone in pain is bad, even if they are virtuous [Plato]
378 A life of pure pleasure with no intellect is the life of a jellyfish [Plato]
130 Is the happiest state one of sensual, self-indulgent freedom? [Plato]
377 If you lived a life of maximum pleasure, would you still be lacking anything? [Plato]
23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 1. Contractarianism
19946 Morality is a compromise, showing restraint, to avoid suffering wrong without compensation [Plato]
2097 Isn't it better to have a reputation for goodness than to actually be good? [Plato]
5 Justice is merely the interests of the stronger party [Plato]
23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 3. Promise Keeping
7 Surely you don't return a borrowed weapon to a mad friend? [Plato]
23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 4. Value of Authority
8 Is right just the interests of the powerful? [Plato]
23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 5. Free Rider
15 Sin first, then sacrifice to the gods from the proceeds [Plato]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue
13785 'Arete' signifies lack of complexity and a free-flowing soul [Plato]
6015 Plato, unusually, said that theoretical and practical wisdom are inseparable [Plato, by Kraut]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue
263 The only worthwhile life is one devoted to physical and moral perfection [Plato]
120 Should we avoid evil because it will bring us bad consequences? [Plato]
170 The only slavery which is not dishonourable is slavery to excellence [Plato]
182 The first step on the right path is the contemplation of physical beauty when young [Plato]
5944 For Plato, virtue is its own reward [Lawson-Tancred on Plato]
144 Reason impels us towards excellence, which teaches us self-control [Plato]
4332 Virtue is a concord of reason and emotion, with pleasure and pain trained to correct ends [Plato]
248 A serious desire for moral excellence is very rare indeed [Plato]
253 Every crime is the result of excessive self-love [Plato]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / d. Teaching virtue
1913 Is virtue taught, or achieved by practice, or a natural aptitude, or what? [Plato]
1921 If virtue is a type of knowledge then it ought to be taught [Plato]
1927 It seems that virtue is neither natural nor taught, but is a divine gift [Plato]
188 Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato]
189 If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato]
204 Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato]
235 Virtue is the aim of all laws [Plato]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
20764 In becoming what we want to be we create what we think man ought to be [Sartre]
118 I would rather be a victim of crime than a criminal [Plato]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / f. The Mean
281 The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato]
305 Something which lies midway between two evils is better than either of them [Plato]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / j. Unity of virtue
1916 Even if virtues are many and various, they must have something in common to make them virtues [Plato]
1918 How can you know part of virtue without knowing the whole? [Plato]
2155 True goodness requires mental unity and harmony [Plato]
277 The Guardians must aim to discover the common element in the four cardinal virtues [Plato]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues
2126 A good community necessarily has wisdom, courage, self-discipline and morality [Plato]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / b. Temperance
131 If absence of desire is happiness, then nothing is happier than a stone or a corpse [Plato]
140 Self-indulgent desire makes friendship impossible, because it makes a person incapable of co-operation [Plato]
254 Excessive laughter and tears must be avoided [Plato]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice
119 A criminal is worse off if he avoids punishment [Plato]
23562 If the parts of our soul do their correct work, we will be just people, and will act justly [Plato]
129 Do most people praise self-discipline and justice because they are too timid to gain their own pleasure? [Plato]
2092 Simonides said morality is helping one's friends and harming one's enemies [Plato]
266 Injustice is the mastery of the soul by bad feelings, even if they do not lead to harm [Plato]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage
3848 Cowards are responsible for their cowardice [Sartre]
293 Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / b. Health
4320 The popular view is that health is first, good looks second, and honest wealth third [Plato]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / c. Wealth
256 Virtue and great wealth are incompatible [Plato]
351 War aims at the acquisition of wealth, because we are enslaved to the body [Plato]
242 The best people are produced where there is no excess of wealth or poverty [Plato]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / d. Friendship
294 People say that friendship exists only between good men [Plato]
156 Bad people are never really friends with one another [Plato]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability
20763 When my personal freedom becomes involved, I must want freedom for everyone else [Sartre]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
22229 Existentialists says that cowards and heroes make themselves [Sartre]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst
20755 Fear concerns the world, but 'anguish' comes from confronting my self [Sartre]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 4. Boredom
2912 Plato is boring [Nietzsche on Plato]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 5. Existence-Essence
3842 Existence before essence (or begin with the subjective) [Sartre]
6868 'Existence precedes essence' means we have no pre-existing self, but create it through existence [Sartre, by Le Poidevin]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self
3844 Existentialism says man is whatever he makes of himself [Sartre]
22232 Authenticity is taking responsibility for a situation, with all its risks and emotions [Sartre]
20760 Sincerity is not authenticity, because it only commits to one particular identity [Sartre, by Aho]
22231 We flee from the anguish of freedom by seeing ourselves objectively, as determined [Sartre]
20754 It is dishonest to offer passions as an excuse [Sartre]
22230 Sartre gradually realised that freedom is curtailed by the weight of situation [Sartre, by Daigle]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 7. Existential Action
6571 When a man must choose between his mother and the Resistance, no theory can help [Sartre, by Fogelin]
3851 If I do not choose, that is still a choice [Sartre]