[An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume]@TWC D-Link bookAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals PART II 24/24
That those who are going to the capital take place of those who are coming from it; this seems to be founded on some idea of dignity of the great city, and of the preference of the future to the past.
From like reasons, among foot-walkers, the right-hand entitles a man to the wall, and prevents jostling, which peaceable people find very disagreeable and inconvenient.] To carry the matter farther, we may observe, that it is impossible for men so much as to murder each other without statutes, and maxims, and an idea of justice and honour.
War has its laws as well as peace; and even that sportive kind of war, carried on among wrestlers, boxers, cudgel-players, gladiators, is regulated by fixed principles.
Common interest and utility beget infallibly a standard of right and wrong among the parties concerned. SECTION V.WHY UTILITY PLEASES..
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