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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics
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Moore tries to show that 'good' is indefinable, but doesn't understand what a definition is [MacIntyre on Moore,GE]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / a. Idealistic ethics
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The Open Question argument leads to anti-realism and the fact-value distinction [Boulter on Moore,GE]
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Can learning to recognise a good friend help us to recognise a good watch? [MacIntyre on Moore,GE]
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Moore cannot show why something being good gives us a reason for action [MacIntyre on Moore,GE]
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The naturalistic fallacy claims that natural qualties can define 'good' [Moore,GE]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism
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Plato never refers to examining the conscience [Plato, by Foucault]
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Moore's combination of antinaturalism with strong supervenience on the natural is incoherent [Hanna on Moore,GE]
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Despite Moore's caution, non-naturalists incline towards intuitionism [Moore,GE, by Smith,M]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
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The Frege-Geach problem is that I can discuss the wrongness of murder without disapproval [Miller,A]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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As religion and convention collapsed, Plato sought morals not just in knowledge, but in the soul [Williams,B on Plato]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value
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We should ask what we would judge to be good if it existed in absolute isolation [Moore,GE]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good
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It is always an open question whether anything that is natural is good [Moore,GE]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good
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Plato's legacy to European thought was the Good, the Beautiful and the True [Plato, by Gray]
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The three main values are good, right and beauty [Moore,GE, by Ross]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / c. Right and good
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'Right' means 'cause of good result' (hence 'useful'), so the end does justify the means [Moore,GE]
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For Moore, 'right' is what produces good [Moore,GE, by Ross]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / f. Good as pleasure
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Pleasure is better with the addition of intelligence, so pleasure is not the good [Plato, by Aristotle]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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Plato decided that the virtuous and happy life was the philosophical life [Plato, by Nehamas]
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