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The Lesser Evil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Extract

‘The Russian Revolution and the National Socialist ascendancy in Germany are the two most important sources of evidence of moral philosophy in our time, as the French Revolution was for Hegel and Marx, and later to Tocqueville and for Mill. Although both revolutions produced, both in intention and in effect, a triumph on a gigantic scale, there are often remarked differences between the evil effects planned and achieved.’ This is an observation made by Stuart Hampshire, a keen philosophical connoisseur of the 20th century.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2004

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References

1 Hampshire, Stuart, Innocence & Experience (London: Jonathan Cape, 1999)Google Scholar.

2 Glover, Jonathan, Humanity (London: The Penguin Press, 1989), p. 317Google Scholar.