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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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Men only agree in nature if they are guided by reason [Spinoza]
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We seek our own advantage, and virtue is doing this rationally [Spinoza]
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To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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The essence of man is modifications of the nature of God [Spinoza]
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By 'good' I mean what brings us ever closer to our model of human nature [Spinoza]
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Along with his pantheism, Spinoza equates ethics with the study of human nature [Spinoza, by MacIntyre]
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If infancy in humans was very rare, we would consider it a pitiful natural defect [Spinoza]
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We can't accept Aristotle's naturalism about persons, because it is normative and unscientific [Williams,B, by Hursthouse]
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