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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
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Moral and causal responsibility are not clearly distinct [Kekes]
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Morality should aim to prevent all evil actions, not just autonomous ones [Kekes]
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Much human evil is not autonomous, so moral responsibility need not be autonomous [Kekes]
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Effects show the existence of moral responsibility, and mental states show the degree [Kekes]
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Evil people may not be autonomously aware, if they misjudge the situation [Kekes]
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Ought implies can means moral responsibility needs autonomy [Kekes]
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Why should moral responsibility depend on autonomy, rather than social role or experience? [Kekes]
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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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Liberals assume people are naturally free, equal, rational, and morally good [Kekes]
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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 / 2. Values / g. Love
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Love should be partial, and discriminate in favour of its object [Kekes]
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Sentimental love distorts its object [Kekes]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / j. Evil
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Evil is not deviation from the good, any more than good is a deviation from evil [Kekes]
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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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What matters for morality is the effects of action, not the psychological causes [Kekes]
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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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