Ideas of H.A. Prichard, by Theme

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

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

9254	In philosophy the truth can only be reached via the ruins of the false

22. Metaethics / C. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / c. Purpose of ethics

9261	The 'Ethics' is disappointing, because it fails to try to justify our duties

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / c. Particularism

9262	The mistake is to think we can prove what can only be seen directly in moral thinking

9256	I see the need to pay a debt in a particular instance, and any instance will do

9257	The complexities of life make it almost impossible to assess morality from a universal viewpoint

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / d. Virtue theory critique

9260	Virtues won't generate an obligation, so it isn't a basis for morality

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

9259	We feel obligations to overcome our own failings, and these are not relations to other people

9255	Seeing the goodness of an effect creates the duty to produce it, not the desire

23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism

9258	If pain were instrinsically wrong, it would be immoral to inflict it on ourselves