21 ideas
7082 | Nature requires causal explanations, but society requires clarification by reasons and motives [Weber, by Critchley] |
21233 | The beautiful is whatever it is intrinsically good to admire [Moore,GE] |
8039 | Moore tries to show that 'good' is indefinable, but doesn't understand what a definition is [MacIntyre on Moore,GE] |
22445 | Morality shows murder is wrong, but not what counts as a murder [Foot] |
22444 | A moral system must deal with the dangers and benefits of life [Foot] |
11056 | The naturalistic fallacy claims that natural qualties can define 'good' [Moore,GE] |
22151 | The Open Question argument leads to anti-realism and the fact-value distinction [Boulter on Moore,GE] |
8033 | Moore cannot show why something being good gives us a reason for action [MacIntyre on Moore,GE] |
8032 | Can learning to recognise a good friend help us to recognise a good watch? [MacIntyre on Moore,GE] |
11050 | Moore's combination of antinaturalism with strong supervenience on the natural is incoherent [Hanna on Moore,GE] |
23726 | Despite Moore's caution, non-naturalists incline towards intuitionism [Moore,GE, by Smith,M] |
22155 | We are disenchanted because we rely on science, which ignores values [Weber, by Boulter] |
18676 | We should ask what we would judge to be good if it existed in absolute isolation [Moore,GE] |
22447 | Saying something 'just is' right or wrong creates an illusion of fact and objectivity [Foot] |
11057 | It is always an open question whether anything that is natural is good [Moore,GE] |
5925 | The three main values are good, right and beauty [Moore,GE, by Ross] |
5902 | For Moore, 'right' is what produces good [Moore,GE, by Ross] |
5903 | 'Right' means 'cause of good result' (hence 'useful'), so the end does justify the means [Moore,GE] |
22448 | We sometimes just use the word 'should' to impose a rule of conduct on someone [Foot] |
5907 | Relationships imply duties to people, not merely the obligation to benefit them [Ross on Moore,GE] |
22446 | In the case of something lacking independence, calling it a human being is a matter of choice [Foot] |