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Single Idea 24428

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / a. Preconditions for ethics]

Full Idea

Equality and the absence of authority are the only conditions essential to the morality of every man.

Gist of Idea

Morality just needs equality and an absence of authority

Source

Mikhail Bakunin (Science and the Urgent Revolutionary Task [1870], p.128)

A Reaction

The anarchist's view of the basics of morality. I like the recognition that even the most personal morality has a social and political dimension. It is a Kantian view that morality from authority is not the real thing, which needs personal judgement.

Book Reference

'The Anarchists', ed/tr. Horowitz,Irving L. [Dell 1964], p.128

Related Idea

Idea 24419 The minority in a vote make a moral judgement which is then forcibly overruled [Wolff,RP]