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'A Short History of Ethics', 'The Poverty of Philosophy' and 'The Human Condition'
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / c. Purpose of ethics
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Values are an attempt to achieve well-being by bringing contingencies under control [Kekes]
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Values help us to control life, by connecting it to what is stable and manageable [Kekes]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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Responsibility is unprovoked foreseeable harm, against society, arising from vicious character [Kekes]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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Reason and morality do not coincide; immorality can be reasonable, with an ideology [Kekes]
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Practical reason is not universal and impersonal, because it depends on what success is [Kekes]
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If morality has to be rational, then moral conflicts need us to be irrational and immoral [Kekes]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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Sophists don't distinguish a person outside one social order from someone outside all order [MacIntyre]
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Relativists say all values are relative; pluralists concede much of that, but not 'human' values [Kekes]
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