A basic inequality of goods in a community of men. 'It is better never to suffer harm than sometimes to do harm'. The notions of share, due, and parasitic action
Revenge as 'natural punishment' of evil-doing. How men's self-interested pursuit of a common good may engender a practical necessity of adopting a practice, which is to the mutual advantage of them all
Survey of the general features of our derivation of the duty to abstain from evil. The Principle of Justice. Justice the corner-stone of morality. How action in accordance with the Principle of Justice may become moral duty. The inner and the outer way. Action from a moral motive and action inspired by a Christian love of man; the two are essentially the same
Moral duties exist only within a moral community. The moral community determined by similarity of wants and needs and powers of men. The fiction of the super-man. Justice and mercy
The utilitarian foundation of justice and morality. The two are necessarily of public utility, but their contraries may contingently be of private utility. Moral action is not autonomous self-regarding duty
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Publication Information: Book Title: The Varieties of Goodness. Contributors: Georg Henrik Von. Wright - author. Publisher: Routledge & K. Paul. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1963. Page Number: xiv.
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