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Ideas for 'The Really Hard Problem', 'Treatise 4: The Moral Sense' and 'The Central Questions of Philosophy'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism

6256	Can't the moral sense make mistakes, as the other senses do? [Hutcheson]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value

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Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism

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For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness

6252	Happiness is a pleasant sensation, or continued state of such sensations [Hutcheson]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

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We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan]