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Ideas for 'works', 'The Concept of a Person' and 'Draft Statement of Human Obligations'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / a. Idealistic ethics
Every human yearns for an unattainable transcendent good [Weil]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch]
Where human needs are satisfied we find happiness, friendship and beauty [Weil]