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All the ideas for 'The Problem of Empty Names', 'Nietzsche's Immoralism' and 'Moral Thinking: Its Levels,Method and Point'

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8 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names
18946 Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / g. Moral responsibility
22474 Unlike aesthetic evaluation, moral evaluation needs a concept of responsibility [Foot]
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]
22483 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]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / c. Justice
22472 The practice of justice may well need a recognition of human equality [Foot]