 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
When, in the endeavour to formulate an ethical philosophy, we ask ourselves what kinds of acts are objectively right, we shall, whether we know it or not, be influenced by our desires, but probably not by all of them, or at any rate not by all of them equally. We shall realize that general rules are what we are seeking, and that the aims of moral action in general must contain no special reference to ourselves. ...
We have thus a first principle as to rules of objective rightness: it must be possible to enunciate them without mentioning any individual.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 5
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