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Is Political Activity under a Different Law from that of Personal Ethics?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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In the course of his discussion of the work of the Disarmament Commission, in his book on the League of Nations, Sir Alfred Zimmern asks why the British people were so active in sponsoring disarmament. The question arises because, as he points out, the project must evoke proposals in regard to security which they were in no mood to consider. “The explanation,” he proceeds, “no doubt is that the eventuality, however obvious it may seem in retrospect, was overlooked in the enthusiasm for what had become for a certain type of British opinion a moral crusade, rather than a realistic

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1938

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References

page 59 note 1 In his Memoirs.

page 60 note 1 A Political Testament.

page 61 note 1 “The doing of one's true work.”

page 62 note 1 Ethics, X, vii.

page 63 note 1 Les Doctrines politiques de I’Allamagne, chap, vi, Hegel. Victor Basch.

page 64 note 1 Les deux sources de la religion et de la morale.