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All the ideas for 'Reasons for Actions and Desires', 'Human Flourishing, Ethics and Liberty' and '75: Is 'Live Unknown' a Wise Precept?'

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4 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

5959	Some philosophers say the soul is light [Plutarch]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

22393

I don't understand the idea of a reason for acting, but it is probably the agent's interests or desires [Foot]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / d. Good as virtue

5121	Basing ethics on flourishing makes it consequentialist, as actions are judged by contributing to it [Harman]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

5120	What counts as 'flourishing' must be relative to various sets of values [Harman]