Discontinuity Between Individual Morality and Public Morality
(Nagel)

"Either public morality will be derivable from individual morality or it will not." (II)

"The interesting question is whether the special features of public morality can be explained in terms of principles already present at the individual level, which yield apparent moral discontinuities when applied to the special circumstances of public life. If so, then public morality is in a substative and not merely trivial sense derivable from private morality." (II)


Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 2 March 2010