 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
... Throughout Western civilization there are very few who would approve the ancient Semitic custom of sacrificing children to Moloch, the Roman father's power of life and death over his children, the former Chinese practice of binding women's feet, or the Japanese rule that a wife must sleep on a wooden pillow while her husband sleeps on a soft one. ...
What I am arguing is something as to which they and we would be in agreement, namely that one moral code may be better or worse than another. When this is admitted, it follows that there is something in ethics that is superior to moral codes, and that by means of this something they are to be judged.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 3
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