The Sovereignty of Good (Routledge Great Minds)

The Sovereignty of Good might well help to release them for better and more cheerful occupations.

that we are not free, certainly not. But it implies that the exercise of our freedom is a small piecemeal business which goes on all the time and not a grandiose leaping about unimpeded at important moments.

the central concept of morality is ‘the individual’ thought of as knowable by love,

what we know about great art and about the moral insight which it contains and the moral achievement which it represents.

He is a unified being who sees, and who desires in accordance with what he sees, and who has some continual slight control over the direction and focus of his vision.

is significant that the idea of goodness (and of virtue) has been largely superseded in Western moral philosophy by the idea of rightness, supported perhaps by some conception of sincerity. This is to some extent a natural outcome of the disappearance of a permanent background to human activity: a permanent background, whether provided by God, by R

moral terms must be treated as concrete universals.

Man is not a combination of an impersonal rational thinker and a personal will.

not vision, should supply our metaphors: ‘Touching, handling and the manipulation of things are misrepresented if we follow the analogy of vision.’