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Ideas for 'works', 'Introductions to Utilitarianism and its Critics' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

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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]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
You can't separate acts from the people performing them [Glover]
Consequentialism wrongly assumes a clear line between an act and its consequences [Crisp,R]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / h. Good as benefit
Aggression in defence may be beneficial but morally corrupting [Glover]