5252 | 'Enkrateia' (control) means abiding by one's own calculations [Aristotle] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |
19407 | We want good education and sociability, rather than lots of moral precepts [Leibniz] |
6257 | You can't form moral rules without an end, which needs feelings and a moral sense [Hutcheson] |
7105 | If 'maxims' are deeper underlying intentions, Kant can be read as a virtue theorist [Kant, by Statman] |
4024 | Kant follows Rousseau in defining freedom and morality in terms of each other [Taylor,C on Kant] |
7625 | We can ask how rational goodness is, but also why is rationality good [Putnam on Kant] |
3710 | The only purely good thing is a good will [Kant] |
3715 | Other causes can produce nice results, so morality must consist in the law, found only in rational beings [Kant] |
3737 | The will is good if its universalised maxim is never in conflict with itself [Kant] |
20715 | It is basic that moral actions must be done from duty [Kant] |
2915 | Each person should devise his own virtues and categorical imperative [Nietzsche] |
7185 | Replace the categorical imperative by the natural imperative [Nietzsche] |
8065 | 'Ought' and 'right' are survivals from earlier ethics, and should be jettisoned [Anscombe] |
8069 | Between Aristotle and us, a Judaeo-Christian legal conception of ethics was developed [Anscombe] |
22391 | Saying we 'ought to be moral' makes no sense, unless it relates to some other system [Foot] |
5077 | The modern idea of obligation seems to have lost the idea of an obligation 'to' something [Taylor,R] |
4113 | 'Deon' in Greek means what one must do; there was no word meaning 'duty' [Williams,B] |
3261 | Something may be 'rational' either because it is required or because it is acceptable [Nagel] |
20276 | Conflict of rules might be avoided by greater complexity, or by a hierarchy of rules [Singer] |
3784 | Duty prohibits some acts, whatever their consequences [Glover] |
3550 | Principles cover life as a whole, where rules just cover actions [Annas] |
4327 | Deontologists do consider consequences, because they reveal when a rule might apply [Hursthouse] |
4335 | 'Codifiable' morality give rules for decisions which don't require wisdom [Hursthouse] |