“I may long for certainty, but I have to live with doing the best I can.”
― Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition
― Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition
“Good, then, is indefinable....”
― Principia Ethica
― Principia Ethica
“...the fact that a conclusion does not follow from its putative premise is not sufficient to show that it is false.”
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“There is no logical connection between having any degree of power, including the power to create the universe, and being morally good.
-A.J. Ayer”
― Atheism: A Reader
-A.J. Ayer”
― Atheism: A Reader
“If i am asked 'what is good? my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter. Or if I am asked 'How is good to be defined?' my answer is that it cannot be defined, and that is all I have to say about it”
― Principia Ethica
― Principia Ethica
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