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'Protagoras', 'Concepts and Counting' and 'Does moral phil rest on a mistake?'
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / c. Particularism
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The mistake is to think we can prove what can only be seen directly in moral thinking [Prichard]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / d. Virtue theory critique
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Virtues won't generate an obligation, so it isn't a basis for morality [Prichard]
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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / d. Teaching virtue
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Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato]
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If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato]
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Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato]
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23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty
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We feel obligations to overcome our own failings, and these are not relations to other people [Prichard]
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23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism
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If pain were instrinsically wrong, it would be immoral to inflict it on ourselves [Prichard]
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