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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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None of the ancients had the courage to deny morality by denying free will [Nietzsche]
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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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'Conscience' is invented to value actions by intention and conformity to 'law', rather than consequences [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / f. Übermensch
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There is an extended logic to a great man's life, achieved by a sustained will [Nietzsche]
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The highest man can endure and control the greatest combination of powerful drives [Nietzsche]
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The highest man directs the values of the highest natures over millenia [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / g. Will to power
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There is a conspiracy (a will to power) to make morality dominate other values, like knowledge and art [Nietzsche]
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The basic tendency of the weak has always been to pull down the strong, using morality [Nietzsche]
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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 / d. Subjective value
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All evaluation is from some perspective, and aims at survival [Nietzsche]
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The ruling drives of our culture all want to be the highest court of our values [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism
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How can it be that I should prefer my neighbour to myself, but he should prefer me to himself? [Nietzsche]
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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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Utilitarians prefer consequences because intentions are unknowable - but so are consequences! [Nietzsche]
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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
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It is a sign of degeneration when eudaimonistic values begin to prevail [Nietzsche]
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We have no more right to 'happiness' than worms [Nietzsche]
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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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22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure
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Pleasure and pain are mere epiphenomena, and achievement requires that one desire both [Nietzsche]
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