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Ideas for 'Good and Evil', 'Aristotle and Kant on the Source of Value' and 'Ethics and Language'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

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Moral words have an inherited power from expressing attitudes in emotional situations [Stevenson,CL]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

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An end can't be an ultimate value just because it is useless! [Korsgaard]

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If we can't reason about value, we can reason about the unconditional source of value [Korsgaard]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

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'Good' is an attributive adjective like 'large', not predicative like 'red' [Geach, by Foot]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good

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Goodness is given either by a psychological state, or the attribution of a property [Korsgaard]