![]() I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite sceptical about ethics, but bred to believe that 'a gentleman does not cheat', than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Let us suppose for a moment that the harder virtues could really be theoretically justified with no appeal to objective value. But this course, though less inhuman, is not less disastrous than the opposite alternative of cynical propaganda. ![]() In the meantime, they leave the matter alone and get on with the business of debunking. They probably have some vague notion (I will examine it in my next lecture) that valour and good faith and justice could be sufficiently commended to the pupil on what they would call 'rational' or 'biological' or 'modern' grounds, if it should ever become necessary. Propaganda is their abomination: not because their own philosophy gives a ground for condemning it (or anything else) but because they are better than their principles. ![]() 1 2 3 4 5 It is to their credit that Gaius and Titius embrace the first alternative.
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