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All the ideas for 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong', 'works' and 'Consistency and realism (with 1972 note)'

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3 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics

5438	Hermeneutics of tradition is sympathetic, hermeneutics of suspicion is hostile [Ricoeur, by Mautner]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4761	The 'error theory' of morals says there is no moral knowledge, because there are no moral facts [Mackie, by Engel]

22454

We tolerate inconsistency in ethics but not in other beliefs (which reflect an independent order) [Williams,B, by Foot]