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Quote by W.R. Boyce Gibson
“The individual’s own inviolate spiritual experience” is “the central fact in Moral Philosophy and in our human philosophy generally.”
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The quote places each person’s private spiritual experience at the heart of thinking about morality and human life. “Inviolate” suggests that this experience should be respected as personal and protected from outside interference. The speaker presents it not as a minor part of philosophy, but as the main starting point for understanding how people should live.
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- A Philosophical Introduction to Ethics (1904), by W. R. Boyce Gibson
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