ABSTRACT
The morality of the conservative is a closed morality; it is the morality of a particular community. The morality of the liberal is an open morality; it is a morality which has nothing to do with any particular human groups, but applies to all men whatever their local affiliations. Closed morality depends for its very existence on the existence of other social relations; until these are developed it cannot operate. Open morality, in their opinion, is clearly superior in that it recognizes, as does no other system, what is sometimes called the infinite worth of the human person. Liberal morality has supervened on an older morality which is still practised and is still entitled to respect. According to Kant, morality has to do, not with human wants or needs, but with the fact that every human being is also a rational being.
