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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics

2943	Ethics cannot be put into words [Wittgenstein]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value

2942	The sense of the world must lie outside the world [Wittgenstein]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

22458

Consequentialists can hurt the innocent in order to prevent further wickedness [Foot]

22460

Why might we think that a state of affairs can be morally good or bad? [Foot]

22461

Good outcomes are not external guides to morality, but a part of virtuous actions [Foot]

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The idea of a good state of affairs has no role in the thought of Aristotle, Rawls or Scanlon [Foot]