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Ideas of H.A. Prichard, by Text

[British, 1871 - 1947, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford.]

1912 Does moral phil rest on a mistake?
p.13 9259 We feel obligations to overcome our own failings, and these are not relations to other people
p.17 9260 Virtues won't generate an obligation, so it isn't a basis for morality
p.17 9261 The 'Ethics' is disappointing, because it fails to try to justify our duties
p.19 9262 The mistake is to think we can prove what can only be seen directly in moral thinking
n4 p.10 9258 If pain were instrinsically wrong, it would be immoral to inflict it on ourselves
1925 What is the Basis of Moral Obligation?
p.1 9254 In philosophy the truth can only be reached via the ruins of the false
p.1 9255 Seeing the goodness of an effect creates the duty to produce it, not the desire
p.5 9256 I see the need to pay a debt in a particular instance, and any instance will do
p.6 9257 The complexities of life make it almost impossible to assess morality from a universal viewpoint