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Principles and Rules

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Principles and Rules

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Principles and Rules book

Principles and Rules

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Principles and Rules book

ByLouis Arnaud Reid
BookWays of Knowledge and Experience

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1961
Imprint Routledge
Pages 10
eBook ISBN 9781315694641

ABSTRACT

Some philosophers have included motive in the definition of right. Others, like J. S. Mill, have excluded it. Both psychologically and ethically these views seem to be inadequate. If motive did indeed mean this, motive could not be called part of the content of duty. Imagine a young Nazi, brought up under the Nazi regime, conditioned to Nazi duty, to ruthlessness, to anti-semitism. It could hardly be such a young Nazi's duty to be kind to Jews from humanitarian motives. There is no escape from careful and responsible individual judgment of what is right, with all the circumstances in mind, in the light of a broad conception of human good. Such an attitude will always take account of the seriousness of rules but will treat them as prima facie, and not as final authorities. The ethical religions have influenced morality, not only among their own adherents, but well outside that circle.

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