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All the ideas for 'The Definition of Good', 'Moral Luck' and 'Letters to Foucher'

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

13095

Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 5. Controlling Beliefs

3271	We can't control our own beliefs [Nagel]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / i. Moral luck

3272	Moral luck can arise in character, preconditions, actual circumstances, and outcome [Nagel]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / c. Particularism

18671

The ground for an attitude is not a thing's 'goodness', but its concrete characteristics [Ewing]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

2117	The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz]