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Single Idea 3768

[filed under theme 23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty ]

Full Idea

The customary morality, that which education and opinion have consecrated, is the only one which presents itself to the mind with the feeling of being in itself obligatory.

Gist of Idea

Orthodox morality is the only one which feels obligatory

Source

John Stuart Mill (Utilitarianism [1861], Ch.3)

Book Ref

Mill,John Stuart: 'Utilitarianism (including On Liberty etc)', ed/tr. Warnock,Mary [Fontana 1962], p.279