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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
21873 Men only agree in nature if they are guided by reason [Spinoza]
21872 We seek our own advantage, and virtue is doing this rationally [Spinoza]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
17189 The essence of man is modifications of the nature of God [Spinoza]
17207 By 'good' I mean what brings us ever closer to our model of human nature [Spinoza]
8019 Along with his pantheism, Spinoza equates ethics with the study of human nature [Spinoza, by MacIntyre]
17229 If infancy in humans was very rare, we would consider it a pitiful natural defect [Spinoza]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
4845 We don't want things because they are good; we judge things to be good because we want them [Spinoza]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
4848 Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause [Spinoza]
17217 Love is joy with an external cause [Spinoza]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest
7833 Spinoza names self-interest as the sole source of value [Spinoza, by Stewart,M]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / j. Evil
17224 If our ideas were wholly adequate, we would have no concept of evil [Spinoza]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / f. Good as pleasure
21870 Music is good for a melancholic, bad for a mourner, and indifferent to the deaf [Spinoza]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
4860 Man's highest happiness consists of perfecting his understanding, or reason [Spinoza]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure
4847 Pleasure is a passive state in which the mind increases in perfection [Spinoza]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / f. Dangers of pleasure
4859 Pleasure is only bad in so far as it hinders a man's capability for action [Spinoza]