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6559 | Aristotle never actually says that man is a rational animal [Aristotle, by Fogelin] |
Full Idea: To the best of my knowledge (and somewhat to my surprise), Aristotle never actually says that man is a rational animal; however, he all but says it. | |
From: report of Aristotle (works [c.330 BCE]) by Robert Fogelin - Walking the Tightrope of Reason Ch.1 | |
A reaction: When I read this I thought that this database would prove Fogelin wrong, but it actually supports him, as I can't find it in Aristotle either. Descartes refers to it in Med.Two. In Idea 5133 Aristotle does say that man is a 'social being'. But 22586! |
18225 | If we can't reason about value, we can reason about the unconditional source of value [Korsgaard] |
Full Idea: If you can only know what is intrinsically valuable through intuition (as Moore claims), you can still argue about what is unconditionally valuable. There must be something unconditionally valuable because there must be a source of value. | |
From: Christine M. Korsgaard (Aristotle and Kant on the Source of Value [1986], 8 'Three') | |
A reaction: If you only grasped the values through intuition, does that give you enough information to infer the dependence relations between values? |
18228 | An end can't be an ultimate value just because it is useless! [Korsgaard] |
Full Idea: If what is final is whatever is an end but never a means, ...why should something be more valuable just because it is useless? | |
From: Christine M. Korsgaard (Aristotle and Kant on the Source of Value [1986], 8 'Finality') | |
A reaction: Korsgaard is offering this as a bad reading of what Aristotle intends. |
18224 | Goodness is given either by a psychological state, or the attribution of a property [Korsgaard] |
Full Idea: 'Subjectivism' identifies good ends with or by reference to some psychological state. ...'Objectivism' says that something is good as an end if a property, intrinsic goodness, is attributed to it. | |
From: Christine M. Korsgaard (Aristotle and Kant on the Source of Value [1986], 8 'Three') | |
A reaction: Not sure about 'objectivism' here, as attributing a 'property'. A tomato is not intrinsically good. Hopeless for building walls. |