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All the ideas for 'The Morality of Happiness', 'Public Text and Common Reader' and 'Existentialism and Humanism'

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29 ideas

16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 4. Persons as Agents
3847 Man is nothing else but the sum of his actions [Sartre]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
3846 Man IS freedom [Sartre]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason
3546 'Phronesis' should translate as 'practical intelligence', not as prudence [Annas]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 3. Taste
12163 Literary meaning emerges in comparisons, and tradition shows which comparisons are relevant [Scruton]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 5. Art as Language
12162 In literature, word replacement changes literary meaning [Scruton]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 1. Artistic Intentions
12159 Without intentions we can't perceive sculpture, but that is not the whole story [Scruton]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 3. Artistic Representation
12160 In aesthetic interest, even what is true is treated as though it were not [Scruton]
21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 5. Objectivism in Art
12161 We can be objective about conventions, but love of art is needed to understand its traditions [Scruton]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
3843 There is no human nature [Sartre]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value
20762 There are no values to justify us, and no excuses [Sartre]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
3852 If values depend on us, freedom is the foundation of all values [Sartre]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / d. Sources of pleasure
3547 Epicureans achieve pleasure through character development [Annas]
23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 3. Cyrenaic School
3543 Cyrenaics pursue pleasure, but don't equate it with happiness [Annas]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue
3541 Ancient ethics uses attractive notions, not imperatives [Annas]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
20764 In becoming what we want to be we create what we think man ought to be [Sartre]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / d. Courage
3848 Cowards are responsible for their cowardice [Sartre]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology
3550 Principles cover life as a whole, where rules just cover actions [Annas]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty
3551 Virtue theory tries to explain our duties in terms of our character [Annas]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 3. Universalisability
20763 When my personal freedom becomes involved, I must want freedom for everyone else [Sartre]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 6. Motivation for Duty
3552 If excessively good actions are admirable but not required, then duty isn't basic [Annas]
23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism
3542 We should do good when necessary, not maximise it [Annas]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
22229 Existentialists says that cowards and heroes make themselves [Sartre]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 5. Existence-Essence
3842 Existence before essence (or begin with the subjective) [Sartre]
6868 'Existence precedes essence' means we have no pre-existing self, but create it through existence [Sartre, by Le Poidevin]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self
3844 Existentialism says man is whatever he makes of himself [Sartre]
20754 It is dishonest to offer passions as an excuse [Sartre]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 7. Existential Action
6571 When a man must choose between his mother and the Resistance, no theory can help [Sartre, by Fogelin]
3851 If I do not choose, that is still a choice [Sartre]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / d. God decrees morality
3845 Without God there is no intelligibility or value [Sartre]