Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Hippias Major', 'A Matter of Principle' and 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong'

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5 ideas

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty

299	What is fine is always difficult [Plato]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

297	What is fine is the parent of goodness [Plato]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4761	The 'error theory' of morals says there is no moral knowledge, because there are no moral facts [Mackie, by Engel]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 4. Taxation

18639

If we assess what people would buy in an imaginary insurance market, our taxes could copy it [Dworkin, by Kymlicka]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality

298	While sex is very pleasant, it should be in secret, as it looks contemptible [Plato]