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'General Draft', 'Treatise 2: Virtue or Moral Good' and 'The Reasons of Love'
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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 / c. Ethical intuitionism
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We approve of actions by a superior moral sense [Hutcheson]
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We dislike a traitor, even if they give us great benefit [Hutcheson]
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The moral sense is not an innate idea, but an ability to approve or disapprove in a disinterested way [Hutcheson]
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We cannot choose our moral feelings, otherwise bribery could affect them [Hutcheson]
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Everyone feels uneasy when seeing others in pain, unless the others are evil [Hutcheson]
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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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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 / f. Altruism
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Human nature seems incapable of universal malice, except what results from self-love [Hutcheson]
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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 / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest
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As death approaches, why do we still care about family, friends or country? [Hutcheson]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
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My action is not made good by a good effect, if I did not foresee and intend it [Hutcheson]
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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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