Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'God and Human Attributes', 'The Realm of Matter' and 'Modern Moral Philosophy'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

18521

The criterion of existence is the possibility of action [Santayana]

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

8070	It would be better to point to failings of character, than to moral wrongness of actions [Anscombe]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

8065	'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe]

8069	Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / c. Moral Argument

20713

God must be fit for worship, but worship abandons morally autonomy, but there is no God [Rachels, by Davies,B]