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Treating virtues as abstract general notions seems to have made morality harder and less useful
Drawn from what George Berkeley said
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- George Berkeley Anglo-Irish philosopher and bishop (1685 to 1753)
The opinion that those and the like words stand for general notions, abstracted from all particular persons and actions, seems to have rendered morality very difficult, and the study thereof of small use to mankind.
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↗A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)gutenberg.org
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