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23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]
	Full Idea: Hearing someone assert that the greatest good was to succeed in everything that one desires, he said,"It is a much greater good to desire what is proper".
	From: report of Menedemus (fragments/reports [c.310 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 02.16.12

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability

2710	Moral judgements must invoke some sort of principle [Hare]
	Full Idea: To make moral judgements is implicitly to invoke some principle, however specific.
	From: Richard M. Hare (Universal Prescriptivism [1991], p.458)