Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Modern Moral Philosophy' and 'Real Essence'

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6 ideas

2. Reason / D. Definition / 4. Real Definition

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'Nominal' definitions identify things, but fail to give their essence [Jones,J-E]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets

9565	Zermelo made 'set' and 'member' undefined axioms [Zermelo, by Chihara]

3339	For Zermelo's set theory the empty set is zero and the successor of each number is its unit set [Zermelo, by Blackburn]

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 / 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]