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Justice, utility, and “higher reason”

Posted by luno in Utilitarianism, Mill, J. S., Moral Theory (Wednesday January 19, 2005 at 9:36 pm)
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In the case of this [the “powerful sentiment” back of the idea of justice], as of our other moral sentiments, there is no necessary connection between the question of its origin, and that of its binding force. That a feeling is bestowed on us by Nature, does not necessarily legitimate all its promptings.
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