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Ideas for Roger Penrose, Seneca the Younger and Jean-Paul Sartre

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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / b. Living naturally
13318 Nature doesn't give us virtue; we must unremittingly pursue it, as a training and an art [Seneca]
13324 Living contrary to nature is like rowing against the stream [Seneca]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue
13559 I seek virtue, because it is its own reward [Seneca]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
13554 True greatness is never allowing events to disturb you [Seneca]
13305 Character is ruined by not looking back over our pasts, since the future rests on the past [Seneca]
20764 In becoming what we want to be we create what we think man ought to be [Sartre]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / j. Unity of virtue
13561 Virtue is always moderate, so excess need not be feared [Seneca]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues
13562 It is shameful to not even recognise your own slaves [Seneca]
13556 Every night I critically review how I have behaved during the day [Seneca]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / b. Temperance
13308 It's no good winning lots of fights, if you are then conquered by your own temper [Seneca]
13553 Anger is a vice which afflicts good men as well as bad [Seneca]
13312 Excessive curiosity is a form of intemperance [Seneca]
13552 Anger is an extreme vice, threatening sanity, and gripping whole states [Seneca]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage
3848 Cowards are responsible for their cowardice [Sartre]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / a. External goods
13549 Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / c. Wealth
13564 There is far more scope for virtue if you are wealthy; poverty only allows endurance [Seneca]
13563 Why does your wife wear in her ears the income of a wealthy house? [Seneca]
13565 If wealth was a good, it would make men good [Seneca]
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 / 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]
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]
22232 Authenticity is taking responsibility for a situation, with all its risks and emotions [Sartre]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 7. Existential Action
3851 If I do not choose, that is still a choice [Sartre]
6571 When a man must choose between his mother and the Resistance, no theory can help [Sartre, by Fogelin]