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A rule-utilitarian moral code

โœ Scribed by Michael D. Bayles

Publisher
Springer
Year
1969
Tongue
English
Weight
796 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5363

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โœฆ Synopsis

But morality, 1 take it, is something that should serve human needs, not something that incidentally sweeps man up with itself, and to show that a morality was ideal would be to show that it best served man -man as he is and as he can be expected to become, not man as he would be if he were perfectly rational o~ an incorporeal angel.

J. O. Urmson 1

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