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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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Kant united religion and philosophy, by basing obedience to law on reason instead of faith [Taylor,R on Kant]
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The categorical imperative says nothing about what our activities and ends should be [MacIntyre on Kant]
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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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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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Kant thought human nature was pure hedonism, so virtue is only possible via the categorical imperative [Foot on Kant]
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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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We must only value what others find acceptable [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value
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Kant focuses exclusively on human values, and neglects cultural and personal values [Kekes on Kant]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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Our rational choices confer value, arising from the sense that we ourselves are important [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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Values are created by human choices, and are not some intrinsic quality, out there [Kant, by Berlin]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism
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We may claim noble motives, but we cannot penetrate our secret impulses [Kant]
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Reverence is awareness of a value which demolishes my self-love [Kant]
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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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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 / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
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A good will is not good because of what it achieves [Kant]
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The good of an action is in the mind of the doer, not the consequences [Kant]
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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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