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'Natural Goodness', 'Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit' and 'works'
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23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism
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Good actions can never be justified by the good they brings to their agent [Foot]
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Self-interest is not intrinsically good, but its absence is evil, as public good needs it [Shaftesbury]
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23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 5. Free Rider
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We all know that just pretending to be someone's friend is not the good life [Foot]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / b. Basis of virtue
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Every creature has a right and a wrong state which guide its actions, so there must be a natural end [Shaftesbury]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
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Someone is a good person because of their rational will, not their body or memory [Foot]
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
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Humans have no fixed identity, but produce and reveal their shifting identity in history [Hegel, by Houlgate]
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23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 7. Existential Action
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Refraining from murder is not made good by authenticity or self-fulfilment [Foot]
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