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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics
2141 I suggest that we forget about trying to define goodness itself for the time being [Plato]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / a. Idealistic ethics
1869 The good cannot be expressed in words, but imprints itself upon the soul [Plato, by Celsus]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism
7503 Plato never refers to examining the conscience [Plato, by Foucault]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / f. Übermensch
4115 Plato found that he could only enforce rational moral justification by creating an authoritarian society [Williams,B on Plato]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
2173 As religion and convention collapsed, Plato sought morals not just in knowledge, but in the soul [Williams,B on Plato]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value
4547 Plato measured the degree of reality by the degree of value [Nietzsche on Plato]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / b. Successful function
2095 If something has a function then it has a state of being good [Plato]
2094 A thing's function is what it alone can do, or what it does better than other things [Plato]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / d. Health
2129 Goodness is mental health, badness is mental sickness [Plato]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest
12 If we were invisible, would the just man become like the unjust? [Plato]
2168 Clever criminals do well at first, but not in the long run [Plato]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good
2137 The main aim is to understand goodness, which gives everything its value and advantage [Plato]
2139 Every person, and every activity, aims at the good [Plato]
4007 For Plato we abandon honour and pleasure once we see the Good [Plato, by Taylor,C]
2143 Good has the same role in the world of knowledge as the sun has in the physical world [Plato]
2147 The sight of goodness leads to all that is fine and true and right [Plato]
2144 Goodness makes truth and knowledge possible [Plato]
2164 Bad is always destructive, where good preserves and benefits [Plato]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good
9274 Plato's legacy to European thought was the Good, the Beautiful and the True [Plato, by Gray]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / e. Good as knowledge
2138 Pleasure is commonly thought to be the good, though the more ingenious prefer knowledge [Plato]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / f. Good as pleasure
94 Pleasure is better with the addition of intelligence, so pleasure is not the good [Plato, by Aristotle]
2070 Even people who think pleasure is the good admit that there are bad pleasures [Plato]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
17947 Plato decided that the virtuous and happy life was the philosophical life [Plato, by Nehamas]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / b. Types of pleasure
2157 Nice smells are intensive, have no preceding pain, and no bad after-effect [Plato]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / c. Value of pleasure
2134 Philosophers are concerned with totally non-physical pleasures [Plato]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / d. Sources of pleasure
2156 There are three types of pleasure, for reason, for spirit and for appetite [Plato]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / f. Dangers of pleasure
2158 Pleasure-seekers desperately seek illusory satisfaction, like filling a leaky vessel [Plato]
2123 Excessive pleasure deranges people, making the other virtues impossible [Plato]