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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / c. Purpose of ethics
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The good life for man is the life spent seeking the good life for man [MacIntyre]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory
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We still have the appearance and language of morality, but we no longer understand it [MacIntyre]
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Unlike expressions of personal preference, evaluative expressions do not depend on context [MacIntyre]
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Moral judgements now are anachronisms from a theistic age [MacIntyre]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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The failure of Enlightenment attempts to justify morality will explain our own culture [MacIntyre]
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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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Mention of 'intuition' in morality means something has gone wrong with the argument [MacIntyre]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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When 'man' is thought of individually, apart from all roles, it ceases to be a functional concept [MacIntyre]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
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In trying to explain the type of approval involved, emotivists are either silent, or viciously circular [MacIntyre]
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The expression of feeling in a sentence is in its use, not in its meaning [MacIntyre]
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Emotivism cannot explain the logical terms in moral discourse ('therefore', 'if..then') [MacIntyre]
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Nowadays most people are emotivists, and it is embodied in our culture [MacIntyre]
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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 / 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 / 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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