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All the ideas for 'The Psychophysical Nexus', '30: Book of Amos' and 'Utilitarianism and the Virtues'

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9 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
22462 We should speak the truth, but also preserve and pursue it [Foot]
7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
4242 Pure supervenience explains nothing, and is a sign of something fundamental we don't know [Nagel]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
22458 Consequentialists can hurt the innocent in order to prevent further wickedness [Foot]
22460 Why might we think that a state of affairs can be morally good or bad? [Foot]
22461 Good outcomes are not external guides to morality, but a part of virtuous actions [Foot]
22464 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
22463 Morality is seen as tacit legislation by the community [Foot]
23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 5. Rule Utilitarianism
22459 For consequentialism, it is irrational to follow a rule which in this instance ends badly [Foot]
29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 2. Judaism
7604 Amos was the first prophet to emphasise justice and compassion [Amos, by Armstrong,K]