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Ideas for 'Brainstorms:Essays on Mind and Psychology', 'Impossible Objects: interviews' and 'A Critique of Utilitarianism'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory

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The problems is not justifying ethics, but motivating it. Why should a self seek its good? [Critchley]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

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Maybe the unthinkable is a moral category, and considering some options is dishonourable or absurd [Williams,B]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

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Consequentialism assumes that situations can be compared [Williams,B]

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For a consequentialist massacring 7 million must be better than massacring 7 million and one [Williams,B]