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Youth and senility of moral development

Posted by luno in Utilitarianism, Mill, J. S., Moral Theory (Tuesday January 18, 2005 at 10:37 pm)
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Will is the child of desire, and passes out of the dominion of its parent only to come under that of habit. [Utilitarianism, Chapter 4]
This is a critical insight on the lay of moral theories. Utilitarianism and Aristotelian virtue theory are, respectively, the youth and senility of moral development. We train raw desire in youth […]