302 | What knowledge is required to live well? [Plato] |
45 | We aim not to identify goodness, but to be good [Aristotle] |
46 | We must take for granted that we should act according to right principle [Aristotle] |
5153 | There is no fixed art of good conduct, and each situation is different, as in navigation [Aristotle] |
7407 | Good and evil are what please us; goodness and badness the powers causing them [Hobbes] |
4130 | There couldn't be a moral rule of which a man could not justly demand a reason [Locke] |
21374 | We should no more expect ethical theory to produce good people than aesthetics to produce artists [Schopenhauer] |
20230 | The very idea of a critique of morality is regarded as immoral! [Nietzsche] |
21740 | I doubt whether ethics is part of philosophy [Russell] |
6973 | Moral theories are all meta-ethical, and are neutral as regards actual conduct [Ayer] |
6974 | Moral judgements cannot be the logical consequence of a moral philosophy [Ayer] |
9250 | Discussing ethics is pointless; moral people behave badly, and integrity doesn't need rules [Camus] |
5310 | Philosophers study the consequences of ethics instead of its origins [Wilson,EO] |
9228 | Ranking order of desires reveals nothing, because none of them may be considered important [Frankfurt] |
5078 | Kant and Mill both try to explain right and wrong, without a divine lawgiver [Taylor,R] |
5067 | Morality based on 'forbid', 'permit' and 'require' implies someone who does these things [Taylor,R] |
4114 | Philosophers try to produce ethical theories because they falsely assume that ethics can be simple [Williams,B] |
6997 | Moral functionalism says moral terms get their meaning from their role in folk morality [Jackson] |
7000 | Which are prior - thin concepts like right, good, ought; or thick concepts like kindness, equity etc.? [Jackson] |
3284 | There is no one theory of how to act (or what to believe) [Nagel] |
23564 | Deep ethical theory is very controversial, but we have to live with higher ethical practice [Walzer] |
8034 | We still have the appearance and language of morality, but we no longer understand it [MacIntyre] |
8036 | Unlike expressions of personal preference, evaluative expressions do not depend on context [MacIntyre] |
8049 | Moral judgements now are anachronisms from a theistic age [MacIntyre] |
11911 | Some philosophers always want more from morality; for others, nature is enough [Blackburn] |
20216 | Modern moral theory concerns settling conflicts, rather than human fulfilment [Zagzebski] |
20447 | The problems is not justifying ethics, but motivating it. Why should a self seek its good? [Critchley] |
7098 | There is a new sort of moral scepticism, about the possibility of moral theories [Statman] |