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'The Fixation of Belief', 'The Ethics' and 'Ethics and Language'
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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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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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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
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Moral words have an inherited power from expressing attitudes in emotional situations [Stevenson,CL]
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