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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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Ranking order of desires reveals nothing, because none of them may be considered important [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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Morality isn't based on reason; moral indignation is quite unlike disapproval of irrationality [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / d. Biological ethics
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Human defects are just like plant or animal defects [Foot]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / k. Ethics from nature
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Humans need courage like a plant needs roots [Foot]
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Concepts such as function, welfare, flourishing and interests only apply to living things [Foot]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value
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There is no fact-value gap in 'owls should see in the dark' [Foot]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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It is by caring about things that we infuse the world with importance [Frankfurt]
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If you don't care about at least one thing, you can't find reasons to care about anything [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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Principles are not ultimate, but arise from the necessities of human life [Foot]
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What is worthwhile for its own sake alone may be worth very little [Frankfurt]
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Our criteria for evaluating how to live offer an answer to the problem [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / a. Normativity
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If you demonstrate the reason to act, there is no further question of 'why should I?' [Foot]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Rather than loving things because we value them, I think we value things because we love them [Frankfurt]
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Love can be cool, and it may not involve liking its object [Frankfurt]
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The paradigm case of pure love is not romantic, but that between parents and infants [Frankfurt]
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I value my children for their sake, but I also value my love for them for its own sake [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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We might not choose a very moral life, if the character or constitution was deficient [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure
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People want to fulfill their desires, but also for their desires to be sustained [Frankfurt]
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