Ethics
This volume contains C. D. Broad's Cambridge lectures on Ethics. Broad gave a course of lectures on the subject, intended primarily for Part I of the Moral Sciences Tripos, every academic year from 1933 - 34 up to and in cluding 1952 - 53 (except that he
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NIJHOFF INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHY SERIES
VOLUME 20
General Editor: JAN T.J. SRZEDNICKI (Contributions to Philosophy) Editor: LYNNE M. BROUGHTON (Applying Philosophy) Editor: RYSZARD WOJCICKI (Logic and Applying Logic) Editorial Advisory Board: R.M. Chisholm, Brown University, Rhode Island. Mats Furberg, Goteborg University, D.A.T. Gasking, University of Melbourne, H.L.A. Hart, University College, Oxford. S. Korner, University of Bristol and Yale University. H.J. McCloskey, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Melbourne. J. Passmore, Australian National University, Canberra. C. Perelman, Free University of Brussels. A. Quinton, Trinity College, Oxford. Nathan Rotenstreich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Franco Spisani, Centro Superiore di Logica e, Scienze Comparate, Bologna. S.J. Surma, Auckland University, New Zealand. R. Ziedins, Waikato University, New Zealand.
For a list of other volumes in this series see final page of the volume.
C.D. Broad
Ethics Edited by C. Lewy
1985
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Broad, C. D. (Charlie Dunbar), 1887-1971. Ethics.
(Nijhoff international philosophy series ; v. 20) 1. Ethics--Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Lewy, Casimir. II. Title. III. Series. BJI012.B686 1985 170 84-22791
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EDITOR'S PREFACE
This volume contains C.D. Broad's Cambridge lectures on Ethics. Broad gave a course of lectures on the subject, intended primarily for Part I of the Moral Sciences Tripos, every academic year from 1933 - 34 up to and including 1952 - 53 (except that he did not lecture on Ethics in 1935 - 36). The course however was frequently revised, and the present version is essentially that which he gave in 1952 - 53. Broad always wrote out his lectures fully beforehand, and the manuscript on Ethics, although full of revisions, is in a reasonably good state. But his handwriting is small and close and in places difficult to decipher. I therefore fear that some words may have been misread. There was an additional complication. In the summer of 1953 Broad revised an
