 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
I conclude that we shall come nearer to an ethic which can command a large measure of general agreement if we take "good" and "'bad" as our fundamental concepts than if we take "right" and "wrong". That is to say, we shall hold that certain things are “good" and certain others “bad"; that both these are matters of degree, for instance a severe pain is worse than a slight one; that “right" conduct is that which, on the evidence, is likely to produce the greatest balance of good over evil or the smallest balance of evil over good, ...
If this view is accepted, the next step must be to investigate what can be meant by “good" and “bad".
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 3
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