The Ethical Philosophy of Sidgwick: Nine Essays, Critical And Expository
The Ethical Philosophy of Sidgwick: Nine Essays, Critical And Expository
F H Frank Herbert Hayward
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The mathematical rigorism of the " impartiality " principle, is combined with a more doubtful egoistic principle. The basis of the one element lies in a mathematical view of the uni- formity of time ; the basis of the other element lies in a conviction of the importance of person- ality (Mind, 1889, p. 473 et seq. And Methods, pp. 495-96). Each element is thus based on solid foundations, but the fact that the foundations are double and not single, though deducible from the Methods, was never pr...operly recognised by the author. (c) THE MAXIM OF JUSTICE OR EQUITY. " If a kind of conduct that is right (or wrong) for me is not right (or wrong) for some one else, it must be on the ground of some difference be- tween the two cases other than the fact that he and I are different persons. " In the first edition of the Methods of Ethics Sidgwick laid great stress upon the " objectivity " of right and wrong. What exactly did this term mean ? His critics have answered that it means merely " abstractness ".
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