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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value

[values independent of points of view]

8 ideas
Keeping promises and contracts is an obligation of natural justice [Cudworth]
We should ask what we would judge to be good if it existed in absolute isolation [Moore,GE]
The thing is intrinsically good if it would be good when nothing else existed [Ross]
All things being equal, we all prefer the virtuous to be happy, not the vicious [Ross]
The sense of the world must lie outside the world [Wittgenstein]
Saying something 'just is' right or wrong creates an illusion of fact and objectivity [Foot]
Total objectivity can't see value, but it sees many people with values [Nagel]
Values from reasons has the 'wrong kind of reason' problem - admiration arising from fear [Orsi]