Duty or Concrete Ethics

"Thus the state, which in its historical reality is a fabric of law, is reduced to a business concern by an ‘economic interpretation of history’ which destroys the concreteness of legal fact and replaces it by the abstractions of utilitarian ethics; and we get socialism or the substitution of economics for justice, with its natural corollary, the destruction of that internal ‘king’s peace’ which the political spirit has guarded through centuries as the very flame of its domestic altar, and the declaration of a class war which is the explicit negation of the state."

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Written by Robin Collingwood

Narrated by Joshua Noyer

Pp 227-231 Collingwood, R. G. Speculum Mentis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.