Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Human Flourishing, Ethics and Liberty', 'Characteristics' and 'On the Reality of Accidents'

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4 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 4. Concept Nominalism

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Abstracta are abbreviated ways of talking; there are just substances, and truths about them [Leibniz]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude

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The disinterested attitude of the judge is the hallmark of a judgement of beauty [Shaftesbury, by Scruton]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / d. Good as virtue

5121	Basing ethics on flourishing makes it consequentialist, as actions are judged by contributing to it [Harman]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

5120	What counts as 'flourishing' must be relative to various sets of values [Harman]