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'Natural Goodness', 'The Architecture of Mathematics' and 'Maxims'
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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Moral reason is not just neutral, because morality is part of the standard of rationality [Foot, by Hacker-Wright]
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Practical rationality must weigh both what is morally and what is non-morally required [Foot]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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Moral virtues arise from human nature, as part of what makes us good human beings [Foot, by Hacker-Wright]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / k. Ethics from nature
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Virtues are as necessary to humans as stings are to bees [Foot]
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Sterility is a human defect, but the choice to be childless is not [Foot]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value
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Moral evaluations are not separate from facts, but concern particular facts about functioning [Foot]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / e. Good as knowledge
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Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness
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Deep happiness usually comes from the basic things in life [Foot]
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Happiness is enjoying the pursuit and attainment of right ends [Foot]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld]
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