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