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Single Idea 22492
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / k. Ethics from nature
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Full Idea
Virtues play a necessary part in the life of human beings as do stings in the life of a bee.
Gist of Idea
Virtues are as necessary to humans as stings are to bees
Source
Philippa Foot (Natural Goodness [2001], 2)
Book Ref
Foot,Philippa: 'Natural Goodness' [OUP 2003], p.35
A Reaction
This presumably rests on the Aristotelian idea that humans are essentially social (as opposed to solitary humans who choose to be social, perhaps in a contractual way, as Plato implies).
The
14 ideas
from 'Natural Goodness'
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23686
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Moral reason is not just neutral, because morality is part of the standard of rationality
[Foot, by Hacker-Wright]
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23687
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Moral virtues arise from human nature, as part of what makes us good human beings
[Foot, by Hacker-Wright]
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22491
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Moral evaluations are not separate from facts, but concern particular facts about functioning
[Foot]
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23693
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Practical rationality must weigh both what is morally and what is non-morally required
[Foot]
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23695
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Good actions can never be justified by the good they brings to their agent
[Foot]
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23694
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All criterions of practical rationality derive from goodness of will
[Foot]
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22492
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Virtues are as necessary to humans as stings are to bees
[Foot]
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22493
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Sterility is a human defect, but the choice to be childless is not
[Foot]
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22496
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Wisdom only implies the knowledge achievable in any normal lifetime
[Foot]
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22495
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Someone is a good person because of their rational will, not their body or memory
[Foot]
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22497
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Deep happiness usually comes from the basic things in life
[Foot]
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22498
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Happiness is enjoying the pursuit and attainment of right ends
[Foot]
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22499
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We all know that just pretending to be someone's friend is not the good life
[Foot]
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22502
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Refraining from murder is not made good by authenticity or self-fulfilment
[Foot]
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