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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / h. Against ethics
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'Externalists' say moral judgements are not reasons, and maybe not even motives [Smith,M]
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A person could make a moral judgement without being in any way motivated by it [Smith,M]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics
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Moral internalism says a judgement of rightness is thereby motivating [Smith,M]
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'Rationalism' says the rightness of an action is a reason to perform it [Smith,M]
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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 / h. Expressivism
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Expressivists count attitudes as 'moral' if they concern features of things, rather than their mere existence [Smith,M]
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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 / a. Nature of value
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Is valuing something a matter of believing or a matter of desiring? [Smith,M]
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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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