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It's Your Duty

By Freedom Professor
Created 07/17/2009 - 11:51am


POF 9-10 [0]
Why should my action be of less service to the public good when I have done it out of love than when I have done it only because I consider serving the public good to be my duty?

The mere concept of duty excludes freedom because it does not acknowledge the individual element but demands that this be subject to a general standard. Freedom of action is conceivable only from the standpoint of ethical individualism.


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