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Very well , if I stay with my mother , I'll treat her as an end and not as a means ; but by virtue of this very fact , I'm running the risk of treating the people around me who are fighting , as means ; and , conversely , if I go to ...
Very well , if I stay with my mother , I'll treat her as an end and not as a means ; but by virtue of this very fact , I'm running the risk of treating the people around me who are fighting , as means ; and , conversely , if I go to ...
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In all these cases it does not matter , for our purposes , whether the people can , in fact , make out a successful case for justifying their behavior . Obviously , we would want to argue about this for some time , ask for more facts ...
In all these cases it does not matter , for our purposes , whether the people can , in fact , make out a successful case for justifying their behavior . Obviously , we would want to argue about this for some time , ask for more facts ...
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Of course we must not pretend to be too altruistic if we are not in fact so , but there are good reasons for trying to develop as much benevolence and altruism as we can . In brief , loving other people is in itself reasonable ; it is ...
Of course we must not pretend to be too altruistic if we are not in fact so , but there are good reasons for trying to develop as much benevolence and altruism as we can . In brief , loving other people is in itself reasonable ; it is ...
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Contents
FOREWORD by the Reverend Canon Ronald H Preston | 8 |
A Selfobeying | 27 |
B Otherobeying | 37 |
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