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'Universal Prescriptivism', 'Being and Nothingness' and 'Lecture on Nominalism'
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism
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How can intuitionists distinguish universal convictions from local cultural ones? [Hare]
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You can't use intuitions to decide which intuitions you should cultivate [Hare]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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Man is a useless passion [Sartre]
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Man is the desire to be God [Sartre]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism
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Emotivists mistakenly think all disagreements are about facts, and so there are no moral reasons [Hare]
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism
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Prescriptivism sees 'ought' statements as imperatives which are universalisable [Hare]
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If morality is just a natural or intuitive description, that leads to relativism [Hare]
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Descriptivism say ethical meaning is just truth-conditions; prescriptivism adds an evaluation [Hare]
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If there can be contradictory prescriptions, then reasoning must be involved [Hare]
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An 'ought' statement implies universal application [Hare]
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Prescriptivism implies a commitment, but descriptivism doesn't [Hare]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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Sartre's freedom is not for whimsical action, but taking responsibility for our own values [Sartre, by Daigle]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Love is the demand to be loved [Sartre]
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