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The Methods of Ethics

Note 262 — Chapter XI · REVIEW OF THE MORALITY OF COMMON SENSE

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The admission that these maxims are self-evident must be taken subject to the distinction before established between “subjective” and “objective” rightness. It is a necessary condition of my acting rightly that I should not do what I judge to be wrong: but if my judgment is mistaken, my action in accordance with it will not be “objectively” right.

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