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[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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Full Idea
The Stoics say that folly alone is evil.
Gist of Idea
Stoics say that folly alone is evil
Source
report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Sextus Empiricus - Against the Ethicists (one book) II.90
Book Ref
Sextus Empiricus: 'Against the Physicists/Against the Ethicists', ed/tr. Bury,R.G. [Harvard Loeb 1997], p.429
A Reaction
This is Socrates' intellectualist view of weakness of will. Is the evil in the succumbing to a temptation, or in the intellectual error that leads to it? 'Folly' in English is stupid action, not just stupid belief.
The
33 ideas
with the same theme
[pure reason produces ethical values and principles]:
22757
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Stoics say that folly alone is evil
[Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus]
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21826
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The Soul reasons about the Right, so there must be some permanent Right about which it reasons
[Plotinus]
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22112
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For humans good is accordance with reason, and bad is contrary to reason
[Aquinas]
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21872
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We seek our own advantage, and virtue is doing this rationally
[Spinoza]
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21873
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Men only agree in nature if they are guided by reason
[Spinoza]
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12473
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We can demand a reason for any moral rule
[Locke]
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12495
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Pursuit of happiness is the highest perfection of intellectual nature
[Locke]
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12541
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Morality can be demonstrated, because we know the real essences behind moral words
[Locke]
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19769
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Rational morality is OK for brainy people, but ordinary life can't rely on that
[Rousseau]
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5074
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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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8024
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The categorical imperative says nothing about what our activities and ends should be
[MacIntyre on Kant]
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18235
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Only human reason can confer value on our choices
[Kant, by Korsgaard]
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21375
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Reason can be vicious, and great crimes have to be rational
[Schopenhauer]
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21915
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To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason
[Schopenhauer]
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2921
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Philosophy grasps the limits of human reason, and values are beyond it
[Nietzsche]
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14812
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Intellect is tied to morality, because it requires good memory and powerful imagination
[Nietzsche]
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20572
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De Sade said it was impossible to rationally argue against murder
[Adorno/Horkheimer]
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23684
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Morality gives everyone reasons to act, irrespective of their desires
[Foot, by Hacker-Wright]
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23690
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We all have reason to cultivate the virtues, even when we lack the desire
[Foot, by Hacker-Wright]
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23685
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Reason is not a motivator of morality
[Foot, by Hacker-Wright]
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23691
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Rejecting moral rules may be villainous, but it isn't inconsistent
[Foot]
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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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23693
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Practical rationality must weigh both what is morally and what is non-morally required
[Foot]
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9238
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Morality isn't based on reason; moral indignation is quite unlike disapproval of irrationality
[Frankfurt]
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8045
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The failure of Enlightenment attempts to justify morality will explain our own culture
[MacIntyre]
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12037
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Euripides's Medea is a key case of reason versus the passions
[Annas]
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20165
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Reason and morality do not coincide; immorality can be reasonable, with an ideology
[Kekes]
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20171
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Practical reason is not universal and impersonal, because it depends on what success is
[Kekes]
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20175
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If morality has to be rational, then moral conflicts need us to be irrational and immoral
[Kekes]
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23729
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Moral internalism says a judgement of rightness is thereby motivating
[Smith,M]
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23730
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'Rationalism' says the rightness of an action is a reason to perform it
[Smith,M]
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18678
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Maybe final value rests on the extrinsic property of being valued by a rational agent
[Korsgaard, by Orsi]
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15675
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We don't condemn people for being bad at reasoning
[Finlayson]
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