Closereads: H.A. Prichard on Ethics (Part One)

Sign up for Closereads at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy to get previous and future installments of this podcast. On "Does Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?" (1912). Prichard claims that we feel certain actions to be obligatory, and that we have no justification for globally doubting those raw intuitions. We can only re-check by looking more carefully, but the promise of moral philosophy to find a more robust confirmation is incoherent and illusory. The post Closereads: H.A. Prichard on Ethics (Part One) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.