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Ideas for 'The Bhagavad Gita', 'Recent Debates on the A Priori' and 'comedies (frags)'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

7991	Hate and lust have their roots in man's lower nature [Anon (Bhag)]
	Full Idea: Hate and lust for things of nature have their roots in man's lower nature.
	From: Anon (Bhag) (The Bhagavad Gita [c.500 BCE], 3.34)
	A reaction: It seems outmoded now (since Freud) to label parts of human nature as 'higher' and 'lower'. I would defend the distinction, but it is not self-evident. The basis of morality is good citizenship, and parts of our nature are detrimental to that.

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

3032	I can form no notion of what the good is [Amphis]
	Full Idea: What the good is I no more can form a notion of, than of the good of Plato.
	From: Amphis (comedies (frags) [c.350 BCE]), quoted by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 03.1.22
	A reaction: It was evidently a running joke in the ancient world that no one could define Plato's Form of the Good. He was said to have written a book on it, now lost.