BRACERS Record Detail
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Collection code
RA1
Class no.
710
Document no.
.049728
Box no.
5.15
Source if not BR
Recipient(s)
Elcaness, Harold
Sender(s)
BR
Date
1957/09/06
Enclosures/References
Form of letter
TL(CAR)
Pieces
1
BR's address code (if sender)
PP
Notes, topics or text
Typed on the back of Elcaness' letter.
BR says that "The question of the objectivity or subjectivity of ethics is a difficult one and I cannot pretend that my own views completely satisfy me." BR tells him that all that he has to say on morals is in the first part of Human Society in Ethics and Politics. BR disagrees with Elcaness' view that psychiatry provides a healthy standard. The values of "good" and "bad" are the ethical premisses upon which the scientific decision of whether a mind is healthy or not is finally based. BR concludes: "Psychiatry alone cannot prove that it would be a bad thing if we were all mad (as most of us are)."
Filed
Published
Russell letter no.
Thread
Reel no.
Frame no.
Record no.
1028
Record last modified 2014/11/14
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