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All the ideas for 'works', 'Utilitarianism and the Virtues' and 'Consistency and realism (with 1972 note)'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth

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We should speak the truth, but also preserve and pursue it [Foot]

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

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We tolerate inconsistency in ethics but not in other beliefs (which reflect an independent order) [Williams,B, by Foot]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism

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Consequentialists can hurt the innocent in order to prevent further wickedness [Foot]

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Why might we think that a state of affairs can be morally good or bad? [Foot]

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Good outcomes are not external guides to morality, but a part of virtuous actions [Foot]

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The idea of a good state of affairs has no role in the thought of Aristotle, Rawls or Scanlon [Foot]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

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Morality is seen as tacit legislation by the community [Foot]

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 5. Rule Utilitarianism

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For consequentialism, it is irrational to follow a rule which in this instance ends badly [Foot]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / d. Heresy

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Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

6610	I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian]