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Ideas of Richard Taylor, by Text
[American, 1919 - 2004, Taught by Roderick Chisholm. At Brown University, then Professor at the University of Rochester]
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2002
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Virtue Ethics: an Introduction
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Ch.10
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p.61
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5076
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To Greeks it seemed obvious that the virtue of anything is the perfection of its function
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Ch.12
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p.83
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5077
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The modern idea of obligation seems to have lost the idea of an obligation 'to' something
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Ch.14
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p.90
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5078
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Kant and Mill both try to explain right and wrong, without a divine lawgiver
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Ch.16
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p.110
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5079
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Pleasure can have a location, and be momentary, and come and go - but happiness can't
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Ch.2
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p.7
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5065
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The ethics of duty requires a religious framework
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Ch.2
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p.8
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5066
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If we are made in God's image, pursuit of excellence is replaced by duty to obey God
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Ch.2
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p.8
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5067
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Morality based on 'forbid', 'permit' and 'require' implies someone who does these things
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Ch.5
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p.30
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5068
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'Eudaimonia' means 'having a good demon', implying supreme good fortune
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