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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Methods of Ethics (7th edn)' and 'On Providence'

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8 ideas

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will

23111

If we say that freedom depends on rationality, the irrational actions are not free [Sidgwick]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

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 / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

23059

Self-interest is not rational, if the self is just a succession of memories and behaviour [Sidgwick, by Gray]

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

13549

Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

4129	It is self-evident (from the point of view of the Universe) that no individual has more importance than another [Sidgwick]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 4. Social Utilitarianism

20588

Sidwick argues for utilitarian institutions, rather than actions [Sidgwick, by Tuckness/Wolf]

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]