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Full Idea
To God, all things are beautiful, good and just; but men have assumed some things to be unjust, others just.
Gist of Idea
To God (though not to humans) all things are beautiful and good and just
Source
Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE], B102), quoted by Porphyry - Notes on Homer Il.4.4
Book Ref
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.31
A Reaction
The idea that all things are actually 'just' strikes me as nonsense. I also don't think I can get my head round the idea that everything is actually good and beautiful. Must try harder.
| 429 | To God (though not to humans) all things are beautiful and good and just [Heraclitus] |
| 5911 | Moral duties are as fundamental to the universe as the axioms of mathematics [Ross] |
| 5926 | The beauty of a patch of colour might be the most important fact about it [Ross] |
| 23683 | Moral norms are objective, connected to facts about human goods [Foot, by Hacker-Wright] |
| 22451 | All people need affection, cooperation, community and help in trouble [Foot] |
| 22392 | Morality is inescapable, in descriptive words such as 'dishonest', 'unjust' and 'uncharitable' [Foot] |
| 5355 | Cognitivists think morals are discovered by reason [Flanagan] |