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'Metaphysics', 'Nicomachean Ethics' and 'Daodejing (Tao Te Ching)'
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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We aim not to identify goodness, but to be good [Aristotle]
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5153
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There is no fixed art of good conduct, and each situation is different, as in navigation [Aristotle]
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We must take for granted that we should act according to right principle [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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Perhaps we get a better account of happiness as the good for man if we know his function [Aristotle]
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If bodily organs have functions, presumably the whole person has one [Aristotle]
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To eat vast amounts is unnatural, since natural desire is to replenish the deficiency [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / f. Übermensch
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For the great-souled man it is sometimes better to be dead [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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Aristotle said there are two levels of virtue - the conventional and the intellectual [Taylor,R on Aristotle]
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Moral acts are so varied that they must be convention, not nature [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value
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For Aristotle 'good' means purpose, and value is real but relational [Achtenberg on Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / e. Means and ends
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We desire final things just for themselves, and not for the sake of something else [Aristotle]
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How can an action be intrinsically good if it is a means to 'eudaimonia'? [Ackrill on Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / b. Successful function
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A thing's active function is its end [Aristotle]
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Each named function has a distinctive excellence attached to it [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / d. Health
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Excess and deficiency are bad for virtue, just as they are for bodily health [Aristotle]
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Disreputable pleasures are only pleasant to persons with diseased perception [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death
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One with no use for life is wiser than one who values it [Laozi (Lao Tzu)]
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The more virtuous and happy a person is, the worse the prospect becomes of ending life [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism
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All altruism is an extension of self-love [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Only lovable things are loved, and they must be good, or pleasant, or useful [Aristotle]
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Do good to him who has done you an injury [Laozi (Lao Tzu)]
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Most people want to be loved rather than to love, because they desire honour [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / h. Fine deeds
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Good people enjoy virtuous action, just as musicians enjoy beautiful melodies [Aristotle]
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Slaves can't be happy, because they lack freedom [Aristotle]
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Oxen, horses and children cannot be happy, because they cannot perform fine deeds [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest
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The best people exercise their virtue towards others, rather than to themselves [Aristotle]
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Self-love benefits ourselves, and also helps others [Aristotle]
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For Aristotle, true self-love is love of the higher parts of one's soul [Aristotle, by Annas]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good
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The good is 'that at which all things aim' [Aristotle]
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Is the good a purpose, a source of movement, or a pure form? [Aristotle]
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Each category of existence has its own good, so one Good cannot unite them [Aristotle]
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There should be one science of the one Good, but there are many overlapping sciences [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good
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Intelligence and sight, and some pleasures and honours, are candidates for being good in themselves [Aristotle]
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Goods are external, of the soul, and of the body; those of the soul (such as action) come first [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / f. Good as pleasure
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Pleasure is not the Good, and not every pleasure is desirable [Aristotle]
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The masses believe, not unreasonably, that the good is pleasure [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
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Clearly perfect conduct will involve both good intention and good action [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / h. Good as benefit
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Wealth is not the good, because it is only a means [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
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Happiness seems to involve virtue, or practical reason, or wisdom, or pleasure, or external goods [Aristotle]
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You can be good while asleep, or passive, or in pain [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia
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Eudaimonia is said to only have final value, where reason and virtue are also useful [Aristotle, by Orsi]
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Does Aristotle say eudaimonia is the aim, or that it ought to be? [McDowell on Aristotle]
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Some good and evil can happen to the dead, just as the living may be unaware of a disaster [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
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Aristotle is unsure about eudaimonia because he is unsure what people are [Nagel on Aristotle]
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Goods like pleasure are chosen partly for happiness, but happiness is chosen just for itself [Aristotle]
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Happiness is perfect and self-sufficient, the end of all action [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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Happiness needs total goodness and a complete life [Aristotle]
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If happiness can be achieved by study and effort, then it is open to anyone who is not corrupt [Aristotle]
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Happiness is activity in accordance with complete virtue, for a whole life, with adequate external goods [Aristotle]
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The best life is that of the intellect, since that is in the fullest sense the man [Aristotle]
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The happy life is in accordance with goodness, which implies seriousness [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure
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For Aristotle, pleasure is the perception of particulars as valuable [Achtenberg on Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / b. Types of pleasure
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God feels one simple pleasure forever [Aristotle]
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Intellectual pleasures are superior to sensuous ones [Aristotle]
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There are pleasures of the soul (e.g. civic honour, and learning) and of the body [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / c. Value of pleasure
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If we criticise bodily pleasures as licentious and bad, why do we consider their opposite, pain, to be bad? [Aristotle]
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Nobody would choose the mentality of a child, even if they had the greatest childish pleasures [Aristotle]
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There are many things we would want even if they brought no pleasure [Aristotle]
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It is right to pursue pleasure, because it enhances life, and life is a thing to choose [Aristotle]
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If happiness were mere amusement it wouldn't be worth a lifetime's effort [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / d. Sources of pleasure
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Some things are not naturally pleasant, but become so through disease or depravity [Aristotle]
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While replenishing we even enjoy unpleasant things, but only absolute pleasures when we are replenished [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / e. Role of pleasure
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Character is revealed by the pleasures and pains people feel [Aristotle]
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Feeling inappropriate pleasure or pain affects conduct, and is central to morality [Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / f. Dangers of pleasure
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The greater the pleasure, the greater the hindrance to thought [Aristotle]
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