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