 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
When we examine the causes of what are said to be ethical intuitions, we find that they are to be found mainly in the emotions of praise or blame felt in our social environment, but partly also in our own emotions of love or hate, dominance or submission, and so on. Differences as to moral rules have their source partly in differences as to matters of fact (for instance, as to the possibility of witchcraft), but partly also in emotional differences between different individuals or communities. It seems therefore, that there is no reason to assume such a thing as “moral intuition”, and that when I say that an act is “objectively right” I am really expressing an emotion, though grammatically I seem to be making an assertion.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 5
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