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Ideas for 'poems', 'Consciousness,Represn, and Knowledge' and 'Existentialism and Humanism'

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

3843	There is no human nature [Sartre]
	Full Idea: There is no human nature.
	From: Jean-Paul Sartre (Existentialism and Humanism [1945], p.28)
	A reaction: Everything which can be individuated has a nature, say I, wearing my Aristotelian lapel badge. Does he think the same of cats? Does he think the mind is a blank page?

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]
	Full Idea: Nomos is king.
	From: Pindar (poems [c.478 BCE], S 169), quoted by Thomas Nagel - The Philosophical Culture
	A reaction: This seems to be the earliest recorded shot in the nomos-physis wars (the debate among sophists about moral relativism). It sounds as if it carries the full relativist burden - that all that matters is what has been locally decreed.