Is Conscience An Emotion? Three Lectures On Recent Ethical Theories
Is Conscience An Emotion? Three Lectures On Recent Ethical Theories
Rashdall, Hastings, 1858-1924
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It must be acknowledged that it is difficult to detect In the savage mother's love of her offspring, in the savage warrior's admiration for cour- age, in his resentment against the vio- lation of tribal custom, in his hatred of his tribe's enemies, in his passionate desire to avenge the death of a slaught- ered kinsman, in his jealous indignation against interference with his marital rights, it is difficult to detect anything which is not ejusdem generis with the passions which, in less develop...ed form, may be inferred, from his outward be- havior under similar circumstances, to exist in the breast of the savage's re- mote simian ancestor. The savage has no such concepts as those which writ- ers like Kant regard as the fundamental conceptions of morality. He has no no* 68 Digitized by Google THE MORAUTY OF SAVAGES tion of the intrinsic worth of the human being as such : for he attributes no value to the life of a man belonging to an- other tribe, or at least of a hostile tribe. He has no notion that what is right for him would be right for any other man under the same circumstances, for his r morality does not rise above obedience V to tribal custom.
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