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8 March 2012

• 03:3203:32, 8 March 2012 diff hist +851‎ Talk:Normative ethics ‎ →‎Binding Force: A further comment on some recent changes to this section
• 03:2703:27, 8 March 2012 diff hist −29‎ Normative ethics ‎ →‎Binding forces: Tried to smooth some of this text out. I think the portrayal of Mill is wrong (and contradicted by the text), but that's an issue for later.
• 01:3001:30, 8 March 2012 diff hist −429‎ Normative ethics ‎ →‎Binding forces: Removed some text from the Foot section - she's not addressing punishment by the universe, but "binding force" as such - things that "go ought in the night"
• 01:0501:05, 8 March 2012 diff hist −2‎ The Life You Can Save ‎ →‎The philosophical argument: removed quotes around the "ought" since Singer isn't doubting the binding force of morality
• 00:5600:56, 8 March 2012 diff hist +1,010‎ Talk:Normative ethics ‎ →‎Binding Force: new section
• 00:4800:48, 8 March 2012 diff hist −158‎ Normative ethics ‎ →‎Normative ethical theories: Removed mention of Jefferson, Socrates, Gandhi, and King as pragmatists. Hard to see that this captures their own ethical views.
• 00:4500:45, 8 March 2012 diff hist −21‎ Normative ethics ‎ →‎Normative ethical theories: Removed reference to Hobbes from Contractualism, since his view isn't deontically contractualist
• 00:4200:42, 8 March 2012 diff hist 0‎ Normative ethics ‎ Two of them: revised an it's to it is in the lede, and replaced Aquinas with Nozick in the text, since Aquinas is not a natural rights thinker (though he is a natural law thinker)

7 March 2012

• 05:4905:49, 7 March 2012 diff hist +6‎ Ethics ‎ →‎Military ethics: Changed a bit of wording here to make it less US-centric in phrasing, and to remove unnecessary reference to administrative matters
• 05:3705:37, 7 March 2012 diff hist +6‎ Morality ‎ →‎Evolution: Reframed the beginning of the second paragraph, as it previously was phrased to suggest the truth of this view, rather than its implications.
• 05:3005:30, 7 March 2012 diff hist +168‎ Talk:Anarchy, State, and Utopia ‎ →‎Needs much more disscussion of Criticisms: Leff?
• 01:3501:35, 7 March 2012 diff hist −36‎ Social contract ‎ →‎Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651): Tried to clean up some misleading text about Hobbes's argument (no society first - Sovereignty creates society). It still stinks.
• 01:3101:31, 7 March 2012 diff hist +8‎ Social contract ‎ →‎Classical thought: made sure the links in this section were live

26 February 2012

• 06:1206:12, 26 February 2012 diff hist +604‎ Talk:Allegory of the cave ‎ →‎Teaching of This Allegory and Others
• 05:5105:51, 26 February 2012 diff hist +257‎ Talk:Pious fiction ‎ →‎Proposed merger: Vote for deletion, essentially

25 February 2012

• 06:2906:29, 25 February 2012 diff hist −1,461‎ Social contract ‎ →‎Classical thought: Tried to clean up some stuff here. The stuff to Asoka was rambly, and the Epicurus part included things not relevant to contracting
• 06:2206:22, 25 February 2012 diff hist −43‎ Social contract ‎ →‎Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Du contract social (1762): chopped off some random names thrown into this section
• 06:1806:18, 25 February 2012 diff hist +3‎ Social contract ‎ →‎John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689): Revised the reference to Jefferson, since he praised Sidney etc. along with Locke
• 05:4605:46, 25 February 2012 diff hist +26‎ Ring of Gyges ‎ →‎The role of the legend in Republic: Tried to capture the nature of the argument better; section still stinks.
• 05:3105:31, 25 February 2012 diff hist −203‎ Moral nihilism ‎ →‎Moral nihilists in history: tried to clean up the Machiavelli section a bit, since it seemed to be arguing with itself. Added an explanatory note for Thrasymachus as well. (Wouldn't Callicles better here?)