Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Good and Evil', 'Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks' and 'Causation and the Flow of Energy'

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4 ideas

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

22489

'Good' is an attributive adjective like 'large', not predicative like 'red' [Geach, by Foot]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 5. Existence-Essence

20130

It is absurd to think you can change your own essence, like a garment [Nietzsche]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

8326	Science has shown that causal relations are just transfers of energy or momentum [Fair, by Sosa/Tooley]

10379

Fair shifted his view to talk of counterfactuals about energy flow [Fair, by Schaffer,J]