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All the ideas for 'Good and Evil', 'Causal Connections' and 'What is the Basis of Moral Obligation?'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles
9254 In philosophy the truth can only be reached via the ruins of the false [Prichard]
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 / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / c. Particularism
9256 I see the need to pay a debt in a particular instance, and any instance will do [Prichard]
9257 The complexities of life make it almost impossible to assess morality from a universal viewpoint [Prichard]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty
9255 Seeing the goodness of an effect creates the duty to produce it, not the desire [Prichard]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
4784 Salmon says processes rather than events should be basic in a theory of physical causation [Salmon, by Psillos]