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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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Fate initiates general causes, but individual wills and characters dictate what we do [Chrysippus]
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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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Human purpose is to contemplate and imitate the cosmos [Chrysippus]
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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 / j. Ethics by convention
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Stoics say justice is a part of nature, not just an invented principle [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / k. Ethics from nature
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Only nature is available to guide action and virtue [Chrysippus]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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We don't want things because they are good; we judge things to be good because we want them [Spinoza]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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Live in agreement, according to experience of natural events [Chrysippus]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Love is joy with an external cause [Spinoza]
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Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause [Spinoza]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest
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Spinoza names self-interest as the sole source of value [Spinoza, by Stewart,M]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / j. Evil
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If our ideas were wholly adequate, we would have no concept of evil [Spinoza]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / d. Good as virtue
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Living happily is nothing but living virtuously [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / f. Good as pleasure
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Pleasure is not the good, because there are disgraceful pleasures [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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Justice can be preserved if pleasure is a good, but not if it is the goal [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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Music is good for a melancholic, bad for a mourner, and indifferent to the deaf [Spinoza]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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Man's highest happiness consists of perfecting his understanding, or reason [Spinoza]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure
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Pleasure is a passive state in which the mind increases in perfection [Spinoza]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / c. Value of pleasure
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There are shameful pleasures, and nothing shameful is good, so pleasure is not a good [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / f. Dangers of pleasure
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Pleasure is only bad in so far as it hinders a man's capability for action [Spinoza]
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