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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Authority and the Individual' and 'Ancient Philosophy: very short introduction'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

12037	Euripides's Medea is a key case of reason versus the passions [Annas]
	Full Idea: Euripides's Medea has remained a key case for discussion of reason and the passions.
	From: Julia Annas (Ancient Philosophy: very short introduction [2000], Ch.1)

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

23154	We divide mankind into friend and foe, and cooperate with one and compete with the other [Russell]
	Full Idea: Instinctively we divide mankind into friends and foes - friends, towards whom we have a morality of co-operation; foes, towards whom we have that of competition.
	From: Bertrand Russell (Authority and the Individual [1949], 1)
	A reaction: Interesting, because I have though of cooperation and competition as intrinsic features of people, internal to their nature, but this idea observes that it is more external, as two responses to two sharply distinct aspects of experience.