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'The Really Hard Problem', 'Human Personality' and 'Interview with Philippa Foot'
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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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Concepts such as function, welfare, flourishing and interests only apply to living things [Foot]
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Humans need courage like a plant needs roots [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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Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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All we need are the unity of justice, truth and beauty [Weil]
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Principles are not ultimate, but arise from the necessities of human life [Foot]
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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 / c. Life
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The sacred in every human is their expectation of good rather than evil [Weil]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism
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For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Everything which originates in love is beautiful [Weil]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / j. Evil
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Evil is transmitted by comforts and pleasures, but mostly by doing harm to people [Weil]
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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]
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