Word: wouldst
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Royce first summed up the results of the previous lecture and illustrated them more fully, closing these illustrations by a statement of what is suggested as the ultimate moral principle, which is in the form of a maxim: Act as thou wouldst be minded to act if all the consequences of thy act, for all conscious beings, in so far as such consequences can be foreseen, were to be realized for thy self at the next moment. That is to say, that morality is defined as a perfectly impersonal view of all conscious life and as action based upon such...