The ordinary man so very rarely questions the principles in which he has been brought up, that he is usually willing, wh — R.M. Hare, The Language of Morals
The ordinary man so very rarely questions the principles in which he has been brought up, that he is usually willing, wh — R.M. Hare, The Language of Morals
The ordinary man so very rarely questions the principles in which he has been brought up, that he is usually willing, wh — R.M. Hare, The Language of Morals
The ordinary man so very rarely questions the principles in which he has been brought up, that he is usually willing, wh — R.M. Hare, The Language of Morals
The ordinary man so very rarely questions the principles in which he has been brought up, that he is usually willing, wh — R.M. Hare, The Language of Morals
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The ordinary man so very rarely questions the principles in which he has been brought up, that he is usually willing, whenever he has a feeling that he ought to do 'x', to say on this ground that he ought to do 'x'.

— R.M. Hare, The Language of Morals
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