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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / c. Purpose of ethics
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At a civilisation's peak values are all that matters, and people unconsciously live by them [Cioran]
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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 / e. Human nature
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Human purpose is to contemplate and imitate the cosmos [Chrysippus]
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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 / a. Nature of value
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Values don't accumulate; they are ruthlessly replaced [Cioran]
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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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Lovers are hateful, apart from their hovering awareness of death [Cioran]
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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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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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