Excerpt from The Theory of Abstract Ethics
The present work is the result of long reflections, but was actually called forth by Professor Juvalta"s Old and New Problem of Morality, to which my attention was drawn by Mr Benn"s review in Mind (January, 1915). The instantaneous impression made by the review, in spite of the reviewer"s disagreement with the author, was, "This is the doctrine of which I was in search." Though "awakened from dogmatic slumber" by Renouvier (Mind and the Critique Philosophique, 1887), I had for long continued the attempt to derive the ethical law of justice from "ends" or "goods." This is of course the tradition of English ethics; and my own resistance to Renouvier"s Kantianism was only one expression of the effort of English thought to avoid the "a priori." The a priori, however, in some sense, cannot be avoided. English Experientialism, largely justified though it was and is, must inevitably be modified in the end by the Continental Rationalism that found its most powerful expression in Kant.
On this, I am glad to find myself in agreement with Mr Bertrand Russell, whose case is, I think, similar to my own.
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