[Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain]@TWC D-Link bookMoral Science; A Compendium of Ethics CHAPTER III 6/25
The views entertained by Plato and Aristotle as to the intercourse of the sexes are now looked upon with abhorrence. (2) It has been replied that, although men differ greatly in what they consider right and wrong, they all agree in possessing _some notion_ of right and wrong.
No people are entirely devoid of moral judgments. But this is to surrender the only position of any real importance.
The simple and underived character of the moral faculty is maintained because of the superior authority attached to what is natural, as opposed to what is merely conventional.
But if nothing be natural but the mere fact of right and wrong, while all the details, which alone have any value, are settled by convention and custom, we are as much at sea on one system as on the other. (3) It is fully admitted, being, indeed, impossible to deny, that education must concur with natural impulses in making up the moral sentiment.
No human being, abandoned entirely to native promptings, is ever found to manifest a sense of right and wrong.
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