The Methods of Ethics

CHAPTER II

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ETHICS AND POLITICS

1. In considering the relation between Ethics and Politics, we have to distinguish between Positive Law and Ideal Law. 15-18

2. But at any rate the primary object of Ethics is not to determine what ought to be done in an ideal society: it therefore does not necessarily require as a preliminary the theoretical construction of such a society. 18-22