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The Case for Pacifism and Conscientious Objection: A Reply to Professor G. C. Field. By Rev.E. L. Allen, Francis E. Pollard, and G. A. Sutherland. (London: Central Board for Conscientious Objectors. 1946. No price given.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Helen Wodehouse
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Philosophy , Volume 22 , Issue 83 , November 1947 , pp. 277 - 279
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1947

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page 277 note 1 But is it relevant to illustrate from our approval of “the man who is truthful even when it would be distinctly to his advantage to be otherwise?” (Italics mine.).

page 278 note 1 A reviewer must protest against Mr. Sutherland's central comment on conscription. “When men are forced to fight it cannot be held that they are fighting because they think it right; the reason they are fighting is because they are submitting to force majeure. & They may believe the cause is just, but that is not why they are fighting; they are fighting because the only alternative is heavy legal penalties. & Failure to accept this implies a belief that every German soldier is fighting in what is to him a just cause.”—That is, with motives A and B both in the field, everyone concerned acts solely from B; and failure to accept this implies a belief that they all act from A.