 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Ethics differs from science in the fact that its fundamental data are feelings and emotions, not percepts. This is to be understood strictly; that is to say, the data are the feelings and emotions themselves, not the fact that we have them. The fact that we have them is a scientific fact like another, and we become aware of it by perception, in the usual scientific way. But an ethical judgment does not state a fact;
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 1
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