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

3954	Immorality is not in the action, but in the deviation of the will from moral law [Berkeley]
	Full Idea: Sin or moral turpitude doth not consist in the outward physical action or motion, but in the internal deviation of the will from the laws of reason and religion.
	From: George Berkeley (Three Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous [1713], III p.227)
	A reaction: A Kantian view (that the only good thing is a good will). It is a very empiricist (and anti-Greek) view to deny that actions have any intrinsic value.

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics

2943	Ethics cannot be put into words [Wittgenstein]
	Full Idea: Ethics cannot be put into words.
	From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921], 6.421)
	A reaction: Nonsense. There is lots of good writing about ethics. This is evasive mysticism.