What Ought I to Do? An Inquiry Into the Nature And Kinds of Virtue, And Into the Sanctions, Aims, And Values of the Moral Life
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These last arise in the wish of the wrong-doer, or of some of his colleagues (and to this number we all in our time and way belong) to apologize for the wrong-doing by a doctrine of its origin which removes all the reasonableness from the feelings of approbation and disapprobation — of the strictly moral sort — and also nullifies the feeling of merit or its opposite (of moral well- desert or ill-desert). A dispassionate scientific examination justifies the reality of this feeling of ability, — ...but not in the way, or to the degree, which is often claimed by the advocates, or controverted by the oppo- nents, of the doctrine of the freedom of the will. The emotions and convictions in which, rather than in the form of an indubitable and infallible self-consciousness, this phase of moral feeling reveals itself, are indeed, as has already been admitted, not infrequently of a doubtful and inconstant character. The old-fashioned, philo- sophical, or theological argument, that every man [115] WHAT OUGHT I TO DO?
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