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Liberal Morality and Socialist Morality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

W. B. Gallie
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One Morality or many? Liberal morality and Socialist morality; bourgeois morality and Georges Sorel's “morality of producers”; Protestant morality and Catholic; Greek morality and Christian; “aristocratic” morality and “slave” morality, “open” morality and “closed” morality—what, if any, is the relevance of such distinctions as these to moral philosophy?

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Research Article
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Philosophy , Volume 24 , Issue 91 , October 1949 , pp. 318 - 334
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1949

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page 323 note 1 I am convinced that this view is wrong. A morality of a kind exists—i.e. calls out genuinely conscientious efiort and action—in Communist countries. And perhaps some of us do know what it is like—if, that is, we met during childhood with that morality in which “being good” means being obedient, working hard, and in particular saying to strangers only the things we have been told to say to them.

page 325 note 1 Bentham.