Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Quaestiones de anima' and 'Moral Thinking: Its Levels,Method and Point'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

21982

I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / d. Form as unifier

16766

One thing needs a single thing to unite it; if there were two forms, something must unite them [Aquinas]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

4125	Hare says I acquire an agglomeration of preferences by role-reversal, leading to utilitarianism [Hare, by Williams,B]

4126	If we have to want the preferences of the many, we have to abandon our own deeply-held views [Williams,B on Hare]

4127	If morality is to be built on identification with the preferences of others, I must agree with their errors [Williams,B on Hare]

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A judgement is presciptive if we expect it to be acted on [Hare]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 8. Contract Strategies

4360	By far the easiest way of seeming upright is to be upright [Hare]