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Ideas for 'Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit', 'On Virtue Ethics' and '17: Of Superstition'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

6237	Fear of God is not conscience, which is a natural feeling of offence at bad behaviour [Shaftesbury]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

6234	If an irrational creature with kind feelings was suddenly given reason, its reason would approve of kind feelings [Shaftesbury]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / d. Good as virtue

4358	Virtue may be neither sufficient nor necessary for eudaimonia [Hursthouse]

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

6233	A person isn't good if only tying their hands prevents their mischief, so the affections decide a person's morality [Shaftesbury]

4337	Teenagers are often quite wise about ideals, but rather stupid about consequences [Hursthouse]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

4324	Animals and plants can 'flourish', but only rational beings can have eudaimonia [Hursthouse]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / d. Sources of pleasure

6236	People more obviously enjoy social pleasures than they do eating and drinking [Shaftesbury]