 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
There is a concept of "subjective rightness" which is clear and definite: an act is “subjectively right” if the agent has towards it an emotion of approval, and “subjectively wrong” if he has an emotion of disapproval. But if we say “a man ought to do what, for him, is subjectively right”, we find ourselves committed to intolerable paradoxes. We are thus driven to seek a concept of “objective rightness”, which shall be valid for all men, and shall enable us to arrive at universal moral rules.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 5
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