The Moral Economy

by Ralph Barton Perry

[4] Spinoza: The Improvement of the Understanding, translated by Elwes, Vol. II, p. 4.

[5] Cf. Plato's Republic, Books V-VII, passim.

[6] For further discussion of the meaning of duty, cf. Kant's Critical Examination of the Practical Reason, Book I, Chapter III, translated in Abbott's Kant's Theory of Ethics, p. 164; Bradley's Ethical Studies, Essays II and V; and Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics, Book I, Chapter III.

[7] Chesterton: Napoleon of Notting Hill, p. 162.

[8] G. E. Moore: Principia Ethica, Chapter III, Sect. 58-63.

[9] Locke: Op. cit., p. 29.

[10] There is an excellent account of the questions that lie on the border between ethics and jurisprudence in S. E. Mezes's Ethics, Descriptive and Explanatory, Chapter XIII.

[11] Kant: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, translated in Abbott's Kant's Theory of Ethics, p. 47.

[12] H. G. Lord: The Abuse of Abstraction in Ethics, in Essays Philosophical and Psychological in Honor of William James, pp. 376-377.

[13] John Davidson: A Rosary, pp. 77, 82.