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Single Idea 21747
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good
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Full Idea
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Gist of Idea
Goodness is a combination of love and knowledge
Source
Bertrand Russell (An Outline of Philosophy [1927], Ch 22)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'An Outline of Philosophy' [Routledge 1979], p.188
A Reaction
Forty years later, Russell's famous filmed message to posteriority said exactly this. In decision making, get the facts; in relationships, show love and tolerance. I find both parts inspiring.
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[candidates for what is supremely good]:
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The chief good is unity, sometimes seen as prudence, or God, or intellect
[Eucleides]
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393
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Good first, then beauty, then reason, then knowledge, then pleasure
[Plato, by PG]
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9274
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Plato's legacy to European thought was the Good, the Beautiful and the True
[Plato, by Gray]
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5131
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Intelligence and sight, and some pleasures and honours, are candidates for being good in themselves
[Aristotle]
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5135
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Goods are external, of the soul, and of the body; those of the soul (such as action) come first
[Aristotle]
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5110
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Goodness is when a thing (such as a circle) is complete, and conforms with its nature
[Aristotle]
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20843
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Final goods: confidence, prudence, freedom, enjoyment and no pain, good spirits, virtue
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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23328
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The essences of good and evil are in dispositions to choose
[Epictetus]
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22755
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Like a warming fire, what is good by nature should be good for everyone
[Sext.Empiricus]
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7821
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Pagans produced three hundred definitions of the highest good
[Augustine, by Grayling]
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12957
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The good is the virtuous, the pleasing, or the useful
[Leibniz]
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8117
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Perfection comes through the senses (Beauty), through reason (Truth), and through moral will (Good)
[Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]
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19450
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Reason, love and will are the highest perfections and essence of man - the purpose of his life
[Feuerbach]
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21747
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Goodness is a combination of love and knowledge
[Russell]
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The three main values are good, right and beauty
[Moore,GE, by Ross]
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5910
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The three intrinsic goods are virtue, knowledge and pleasure
[Ross]
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5932
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The four goods are: virtue, pleasure, just allocation of pleasure, and knowledge
[Ross]
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22379
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The meaning of 'good' and other evaluations must include the object to which they attach
[Foot]
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18224
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Goodness is given either by a psychological state, or the attribution of a property
[Korsgaard]
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