Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'On Providence' and 'Modern Moral Philosophy'

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7 ideas

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

3102	Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness

13550

To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature [Seneca]

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

8070	It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / a. External goods

13549

Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

8065	'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe]

8069	Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

13548

The ocean changes in volume in proportion to the attraction of the moon [Seneca]