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Single Idea 23328
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good
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Full Idea
The essence of the good is a certain disposition of our choice, and essence of evil likewise.
Gist of Idea
The essences of good and evil are in dispositions to choose
Source
Epictetus (The Discourses [c.56], 1.29.01)
Book Ref
Epictetus: 'The Discourses, The Handbook, Fragments', ed/tr. Gill,C [Everyman 1995], p.65
A Reaction
This is the origin of Kant's famous view, that the only true good is a good will. This is the alternative to good character or good states of affairs as the good. It points towards the modern more legalistic view of morality, as concerning actions.
Related Idea
Idea 3710
The only purely good thing is a good will [Kant]
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[candidates for what is supremely good]:
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3028
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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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5925
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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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