"Ethical Studies" by Francis Herbert Bradley,1876

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To be morally responsible a person must be intelligent,
capable of making moral distinctions,un-coerced,
and actively involved in a situation in which not all of his behavior is predictable in advance.
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To ask,"Why should I moral ?" is to ask a senseless question,
for it presupposes the instrumentality of moral action.
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The sense in which morality as an end in itself is an end for man is that through moral action man realizes himself.
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Self-realization is a creative process whereby a self,
which is a unity,aims at the higher unity made possible through social cooperation with others.
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