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Ideas for 'Protagoras', 'Perceptual experience has conceptual content' and 'The Art of Rhetoric'

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

5856	Self-interest is a relative good, but nobility an absolute good [Aristotle]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue

5848	All good things can be misused, except virtue [Aristotle]

5853	The best virtues are the most useful to others [Aristotle]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / d. Teaching virtue

204	Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato]

189	If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato]

188	Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / f. Compassion

5857	The young feel pity from philanthropy, but the old from self-concern [Aristotle]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / c. Wealth

5859	Rich people are mindlessly happy [Aristotle]