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On Doing One's Best

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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On page 157 of Bradley's Ethical Studies (the second edition) the following passage occurs: “There are few laws a breach of which (in obedience to a higher law) morality does not allow, and I believe there is none which is not to be broken in conceivable (imaginable) circumstances, though the necessity of deciding the question does not practically occur.” And Bradley added the extremely significant footnote: “Except, of course, the universal law to do the best we can in the circumstances.”

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1931

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page 57 note 1 Forster's, Life, vol. iii. p. 173.Google Scholar

page 69 note 1 Op. cit., vol. ii. p. 5.Google Scholar