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Ideas for 'works', 'Prolegomena to Ethics' and 'Discourse on the Origin of Inequality'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / a. Idealistic ethics

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The good life aims at perfections, or absolute laws, or what is absolutely desirable [Green,TH]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

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Rational morality is OK for brainy people, but ordinary life can't rely on that [Rousseau]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

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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 / h. Good as benefit

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If we should not mistreat humans, it is mainly because of sentience, not rationality [Rousseau]