[lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral :Law
- From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:45:48 +0900
On 2005/08/04, at 9:00, Robert Paul wrote:
'If then whereas we wish for our end, the means to our end are
matters of deliberation and choice, it follows that actions dealing
with these means are done by choice, and voluntary. But the
activities in which the virtues are exercised deal with means.
Therefore virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice.
For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from
acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say
Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do
it is right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to
do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a
thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it. But if it is
in our power to do and to refrain from doing right and wrong, and
if, as we saw,1 being good or bad is doing right or wrong, it
consequently depends on us whether we are virtuous or vicious.
Or, as my Daddy used to say when I said, "I didn't mean to"―"You
didn't mean not to."
John McCreery------------------------------------------------------------------
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