| On my view, the notion of moral oughtness or duty is not explicable simply in terms of the concepts of goodness and badness. |
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| Every attempt to derive oughtness from rightness must, as we have shown, either end in an illogical system or destroy the possiblity of a separate science of Ethics at all. |
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| There is a sense of divine oughtness from which there is no escape. |
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| Oughtness, may I suggest, consists in the power which a greater good has over a lesser good in compelling our choices. |
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