Ideas of Richard Taylor, by Theme

[American, 1919 - 2004, Taught by Roderick Chisholm. At Brown University, then Professor at the University of Rochester]

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22. Metaethics / B. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness

5079	Pleasure can have a location, and be momentary, and come and go - but happiness can't

22. Metaethics / B. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

5068	'Eudaimonia' means 'having a good demon', implying supreme good fortune

22. Metaethics / C. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / d. Ethical theory

5078	Kant and Mill both try to explain right and wrong, without a divine lawgiver

5067	Morality based on 'forbid', 'permit' and 'require' implies someone who does these things

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / b. Basis of virtue

5076	To Greeks it seemed obvious that the virtue of anything is the perfection of its function

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 1. Deontology

5077	The modern idea of obligation seems to have lost the idea of an obligation 'to' something

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

5065	The ethics of duty requires a religious framework

5066	If we are made in God's image, pursuit of excellence is replaced by duty to obey God