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§ 1. We have hitherto spoken of the quality of conduct discerned by our moral faculty as ‘rightness,’ which is the term commonly used by English moralists. We have regarded this term, and its equivalents in ordinary use, as implying the existence of a dictate or imperative of reason, which prescribes certain actions either unconditionally, or with reference to some ulterior end.
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Sidgwick, H. (1962). Good. In: The Methods of Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81786-3_9
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