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All the ideas for 'Morality and Art', 'The Idea of Overlapping Consensus' and 'On Political Reactions'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics
22445 Morality shows murder is wrong, but not what counts as a murder [Foot]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / c. Purpose of ethics
22444 A moral system must deal with the dangers and benefits of life [Foot]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value
22447 Saying something 'just is' right or wrong creates an illusion of fact and objectivity [Foot]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty
22439 There are only duties if there are rights, so truth is only for those with a right to it [Constant]
22440 Unconditional truth-telling makes a society impossible [Constant]
23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 6. Motivation for Duty
22448 We sometimes just use the word 'should' to impose a rule of conduct on someone [Foot]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / b. Against communitarianism
23420 In a pluralist society we can't expect a community united around one conception of the good [Rawls]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion
22446 In the case of something lacking independence, calling it a human being is a matter of choice [Foot]