 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Christ taught that a man should pursue the general good. This is the purport of the precept "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself", together with the explanatory parable of the Good Samaritan, showing that a member of a group usually regarded with hostility is to be considered a neighbour. The same view was taken by the Buddhists, and by the Stoics ... .
Since the rise of nationalism, it has been common to substitute the good of one’s own nation for that of all mankind as the proper aim of a virtuous man’s endeavours.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 5
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