"道德判断体系的上述各种特征互相支持,它们整体上依照贝拉基教派[1]的上帝所颁许的特权建造成形。据认为,终极说来,只存在一种公正,而道德判词所提交的正是这终极的公正,道德判断标准之严格则与判词之重大程度相呼应。 ———— [1] 贝拉基教派是17世纪由贝拉基(Giacomo Filippo di Santa Pelagia)创立的一个教派,他们主张,上帝创造了人的自由意志,人能够凭借自己的自由意志从善避恶。——译者"
"Here Williams is reacting to a kind of alarmism that he finds in much moral philosophy. This alarmism is born of two things. The first of these is the conviction that, if someone is completely amoral, that is to say if someone is completely unmoved by ethical considerations,5 then it ought to be pos"