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'Defending the Axioms', 'Discourse on the Origin of Inequality' and 'Against the Ethicists (one book)'
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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Rational morality is OK for brainy people, but ordinary life can't rely on that [Rousseau]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good
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Saying the good is useful or choiceworth or happiness-creating is not the good, but a feature of it [Sext.Empiricus]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good
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Like a warming fire, what is good by nature should be good for everyone [Sext.Empiricus]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / h. Good as benefit
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If we should not mistreat humans, it is mainly because of sentience, not rationality [Rousseau]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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If a desire is itself desirable, then we shouldn't desire it, as achieving it destroys it [Sext.Empiricus]
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