Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Natural Goodness', 'Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit' and 'Truth by Convention'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

6 ideas

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

23695

Good actions can never be justified by the good they brings to their agent [Foot]

6235	Self-interest is not intrinsically good, but its absence is evil, as public good needs it [Shaftesbury]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 5. Free Rider

22499

We all know that just pretending to be someone's friend is not the good life [Foot]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / b. Basis of virtue

6232	Every creature has a right and a wrong state which guide its actions, so there must be a natural end [Shaftesbury]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

22495

Someone is a good person because of their rational will, not their body or memory [Foot]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 7. Existential Action

22502

Refraining from murder is not made good by authenticity or self-fulfilment [Foot]