Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Ages of the World', 'Freedom and Reason' and 'Holism: a Shopper's Guide'

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5 ideas

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism

9381	If some inferences are needed to fix meaning, but we don't know which, they are all relevant [Fodor/Lepore, by Boghossian]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

22331

Moral statements are imperatives rather than the avowals of emotion - but universalisable [Hare, by Glock]

22484

Universalised prescriptivism could be seen as implying utilitarianism [Hare, by Foot]

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

20957

We don't choose our characters, yet we still claim credit for the actions our characters perform [Schelling]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 4. Categorical Imperative

6449	The categorical imperative leads to utilitarianism [Hare, by Nagel]