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Ideas for 'works', 'The Will to Power (notebooks)' and 'Eight Theories of Ethics'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
4521 None of the ancients had the courage to deny morality by denying free will [Nietzsche]
6699 The chain of consequences may not be the same as the chain of responsibility [Graham]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / c. Ethical intuitionism
4496 'Conscience' is invented to value actions by intention and conformity to 'law', rather than consequences [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
22344 Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / f. Übermensch
20136 There is an extended logic to a great man's life, achieved by a sustained will [Nietzsche]
20358 The highest man can endure and control the greatest combination of powerful drives [Nietzsche]
20369 The highest man directs the values of the highest natures over millenia [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / g. Will to power
4506 There is a conspiracy (a will to power) to make morality dominate other values, like knowledge and art [Nietzsche]
4514 The basic tendency of the weak has always been to pull down the strong, using morality [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
20370 All evaluation is from some perspective, and aims at survival [Nietzsche]
20354 The ruling drives of our culture all want to be the highest court of our values [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism
4505 How can it be that I should prefer my neighbour to myself, but he should prefer me to himself? [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
4509 Utilitarians prefer consequences because intentions are unknowable - but so are consequences! [Nietzsche]
6698 Negative consequences are very hard (and possibly impossible) to assess [Graham]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / i. Moral luck
6700 We can't criticise people because of unforeseeable consequences [Graham]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness
4558 We have no more right to 'happiness' than worms [Nietzsche]
4500 It is a sign of degeneration when eudaimonistic values begin to prevail [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure
4550 Pleasure and pain are mere epiphenomena, and achievement requires that one desire both [Nietzsche]