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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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Acts are voluntary if done knowingly, by the agent, and in his power to avoid it [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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What is natural for us is either there at birth, or appears by normal processes [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value
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Total objectivity can't see value, but it sees many people with values [Nagel]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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No one would choose life just for activities not done for their own sake [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / b. Successful function
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Wearing a shoe is its intrinsic use, and selling it (as a shoe) is its coincidental use [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / d. Health
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Everything seeks, not a single good, but its own separate good [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death
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We don't worry about the time before we were born the way we worry about death [Nagel]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism
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If our own life lacks meaning, devotion to others won't give it meaning [Nagel]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / f. Good as pleasure
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Pain doesn't have a further property of badness; it gives a reason for its avoidance [Nagel]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
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We judge people from their deeds because we cannot see their choices (which matter more) [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
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Horses, birds and fish are not happy, lacking a divine aspect to their natures [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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Happiness involves three things, of which the greatest is either wisdom, virtue, or pleasure [Aristotle]
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