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Philosophy of language. We might think that the difference in emphasis between these questions is important. Does it matter, for example, to the question of whether I ought to send money for famine relief if that famine was the result of drought or government graft? Also, might a consequentialist stand by 1 and 2 , and explain our differing reactions to, e. We might, e. It is to alienate him in a real sense from his actions and the source of his action in his own convictions.
It is thus, in the most literal sense, and attack on his integrity. Might we not sometimes be required, by morality, to sacrifice projects that are extremely important to us? And is it reasonable to have a powerful objection to killing people that is not based on a powerful objection to their being killed?
Questions: Are the cases of Jim and George different in important ways? Are our intuitions about them different? Soldiers know that a man can become a hero partly by accident. The ancient tragedians knew that he could be undone by fate, which comes to much the same thing. Although some of his most discussed work was outside the field of ethics, it usually had some bearing on understanding humanity or human conduct.
This he contrasted with the inescapably perspectival character of moral thinking. Yet he never managed to work out the extent to which objective truths of the sort to be found in science which he firmly believed in, unlike some post-modernist thinkers could also be found outside it.
Reviewers, realising that it was the swan-song of a sick man, forbore to draw attention to its faults. Away from his desk, his passion was music, especially opera. He served for nearly two decades on the board of the English National Opera. Another passion was speed; he did National Service flying Spitfires, and later enjoyed driving cars too fast. Always a man of the left, he had to wait for the return of a Labour government before he was awarded a knighthood, in He was involved with government committees and royal commissions on gambling, drugs, pornography and public ie, private schools.
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