 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for co-operation with oneself. Hence, by reflexion, it comes, through the operation of social justice, to recommend sacrifices by oneself, but all ethics, however refined, remains more or less subjective. Even vegetarians do not hesitate, for example, to save the life of a man in a fever, although in doing so they destroy the lives of many millions of microbes.
Source: On scientific method in philosophy, 1914
Reprinted in : Mysticism and Logic, 1918, chapter 6
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