Good Things
Colin McGinn, 5 September 1996
Virtues and Reasons: Philippa Foot and Moral Theory
edited by Rosalind Hursthouse, Gavin Lawrence and Warren Quinn.
Oxford, 350 pp., £35, July 1996,0 19 824046 5 Show More
edited by Rosalind Hursthouse, Gavin Lawrence and Warren Quinn.
Oxford, 350 pp., £35, July 1996,
“... comment on a few of the papers that engage most directly with Foot’s views on moral reasons. Warren Quinn’s paper, ‘Putting Rationality in its Place’, is the best in the volume, both in its clarity and in the correctness of its arguments. He undermines Foot’s position in the most direct way possible, by arguing that desires considered in ... ”