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Ideas for 'Locke on Human Understanding', 'Law,Liberty and Morality' and 'Letter Seven'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / a. Preconditions for ethics

168	To understand morality requires a soul [Plato]
	Full Idea: Good and evil are meaningless to things that have no soul.
	From: Plato (Letter Seven [c.352 BCE], 334)
	A reaction: That is presumably psuché, and hence includes plants. Soulless things can still function well, but obviously that is not 'meaningful' to them.

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

23529	Conduct is not isolated from its effect on the moral code [Hart,HLA]
	Full Idea: We must not view conduct in isolation from its effect on the moral code.
	From: H.L.A. Hart (Law,Liberty and Morality [1963], II 'Moderate')
	A reaction: The moral code may be excessively conservative, but there is no denying this point. Extreme individualistic libertarians must recognise that 'no man is an island'.