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our great objects are to exhibit the Arts and Sciences in their Philosophical harmony; to teach Philosophy in union with Morals; and to sustain Morality by Revealed Religion.
Human decision remains free, however rational and informed, because anyone can avoid the constraints of morality by declining to moralize; for this reason, it remains true that no "is" entails an "ought".
There is thus a clear scope for interventions that enhance our morality by directly mitigating those temptations and other counter-moral influences.
He also contended that, as knowledge of God is required for morality by divine command theory, atheists and agnostics could not be moral; he saw this as a weakness of the theory.
People who are regularly exposed to moral luck often find it helpful to have some standard other than morality by which to judge themselves — a code, more or less.
No one needs to be banged on the head about morality by an opera singer.
A surprise attack that initiates a war thus activates the morality by which it is governed.
"Serbia will not endanger its morality by any hostility towards Russia".
The country is immoral, and we must legislate morality by imprisoning women in miniskirts.
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We may try to understand these moralities by investigating their histories and the psychology of the people who embrace them, but there is no question of proving one or another of them to be "true".
Perhaps Russell wants to exclude such moralities, by restricting his claim to civilized communities, where "civilized" rules out societies with blatantly elitist moral codes.
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