Meta-ethics

Question 1

Give a quote from Philipa Foot on Naturalism

Answer 1

“Oaks have to have to have deep sturdy roots, there is something wrong with them if they do not.” (Naturalism more effective than Intuitionism? Modern developments of Virtue Ethics may accept naturalistic principles as Foot suggests with her reworking of Aristotlean Virtue Ethics for modern humans).

Question 2

Give a quote from F.H. Bradley on naturalism and duty

Answer 2

“In my station my particular duties are prescribed to me, and I have them whether I wish to or not.”

Question 3

Give a quote from F.H. Bradley on naturalism and man’s role in society

Answer 3

“A man’s life with its moral duties is in the main filled up by his station in that system of wholes which the state is.”

Question 4

Give a challenge to Naturalism from Hume

Answer 4

“For as this ought, or ought not, expresses some new relation or affirmation, it is necessary that it should be observed and explained…”

Question 5

Give a challenge to Naturalism from G.E. Moore

Answer 5

“If I am asked, “What is good?” my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.”

Question 6

Give a quote from H.A. Pritchard on the self-evident nature of intuitionism

Answer 6

“The sense that we ought to do certain things arises in our unreflective consciousness.”