BIBLIOGRAPHY
On the nature and implications of variations in moral
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(London, 1932); L. T. Hobhouse, Morals in Evolution
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R. B. Brandt,
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Structure of a Moral Code (Cambridge, Mass., 1957).
The main texts for the seventeenth- and eighteenth-
century controversy are: T. Hobbes, Leviathan (London,
1651); F. Hutcheson, An Inquiry into the Original of our
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Some recent discussions of the philosophical problems are
contained in: P. Edwards, Logic of Moral Discourse
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D. H. MONRO
[See also
Evil; Mathematical Rigor;
Right and Good;
Utilitarianism.]
