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All the ideas for 'Human Flourishing, Ethics and Liberty', 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom' and 'Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher'

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5 ideas

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]
25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / b. Retribution for crime
In early Greece the word for punishment was also the word for vengeance [Vlastos]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 4. Ecology
Does the environment have value in itself? [Crisp,R]