Two Differences (Nagel)

Substantive derivability of public morality from individual morality "could ... yield different moral requirements in two ways. Either [(a)] the general principles could imply additional constraints on public action; or [(b)] the principles could be such that certain requirements would cease to apply once one assumed a public role, because the conditions for their application would have disappeared. Or the change might involve some combination of the two." (II)


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