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Excerpt from Self and Neighbour: An Ethical Study The work that follows is a study in ethical theory. Its first part is historical and critical its second portion is a short essay in the Reconstruction of ethical doctrine. A review of the chief classical theories of morals will reveal in them, we think, the presence of a common defect. They are defective, as we try to show, in that they regard virtue, like health, as something which refers essentially to the individual, and which can be privately attained they imply that a man may be good in himself and all alone. The Kantian, and indeed nearly all modern, theory, ' says a recent writer, rests on the assumption that the individual is an end in himself.' 1 Few, of course, would dispute the fact that the individual is an end in himself in the sense that he is a moral agent, and is subject only to the constraint of his own conscience. Moralists, however, have tradition ally regarded the individual as an end in himself in a sense which seems to us inadmissible. They have virtually conceived his life as isolated and detached, and have supposed that, like some Robinson Crusoe, he could be good all alone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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