The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.


A Preface To Morals (ed. Transaction Publishers, 1960) - ISBN: 9781412816229

Walter Lippmann Quotes

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is...

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is...

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is...

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is...