Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Human Flourishing, Ethics and Liberty', 'Open Society and Its Enemies:Hegel and Marx' and 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom'

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5 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
Popper felt that ancient essentialism was a bar to progress [Popper, by Mautner]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / d. Good as virtue
Basing ethics on flourishing makes it consequentialist, as actions are judged by contributing to it [Harman]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
Consequentialism wrongly assumes a clear line between an act and its consequences [Crisp,R]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia
What counts as 'flourishing' must be relative to various sets of values [Harman]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 4. Ecology
Does the environment have value in itself? [Crisp,R]