 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
If mankind were agreed as to what is "right", we could take "right" as the fundamental concept in ethics, and define "the good" as what is achieved by right conduct. But as we have seen, there is a very wide divergence between different communities as to what they consider right or wrong. In general, particularly in the case of tabu morality, this divergence is traceable to a difference in beliefs as to the effects of actions, and there is much less diversity as to what results of actions are thought desirable. It is this fact that makes it better to define “right" in terms of “good" rather than vice versa.
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