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All the ideas for 'works', '17: Of Superstition' and 'The Virtues and Human Nature'

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8 ideas

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

23146

Motives produce intentions, which lead to actions [Driver]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

22086

The most important aspect of a human being is not reason, but passion [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / a. Nature of virtue

23147

Good intentions are not necessary for virtue [Driver]

23144

Virtue should be defined by consequences, not by states of mind [Driver]

23148

Virtues are character traits or dispositions which produce good consequences for others [Driver]

23150

Control of pregnancy and knowledge of paternity have downgraded chastity [Driver]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

23149

If generosity systematically turned recipients into parasites, it wouldn't be a virtue [Driver]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question

7399	Even without religion, there are many guides to morality [Bacon]