Human Society in Ethics and Politics

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ISBN: 9780415487375

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	RUSSELL BERTRAN
Pub Date	01/09/2009
Binding	Paperback
Pages	264

Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

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Ethics are necessary because of the conflict between intelligence and impulse - if one were without the other, there would be no place for ethics. This title offers an account of the author's political position and an absorbing exploration of the ways individuals become socially purposeful.

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First published in 1954, Human Society in Ethics and Politics is Bertrand Russell's last full account of his ethical and political positions relating to both politics and religion. Ethics, he argues, are necessary to man because of the conflict between intelligence and impulse - if one were without the other, there would be no place for ethics. Man's impulses and desires are equally social and solitary. Politics and ethics are the means by which we as a society and as individuals become socially purposeful and moral codes inculcate our rules of action.