Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
It undervalues the role of reason in shaping morals.
Only where we ourselves are responsible for our own interests and are free to sacrifice them has our decision moral value. We are neither entitled to be unself…
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to ackn…
Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted its nectar: But I do not mean by this that we ought to be …