Great Throughts Treasury
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Hastings Rashdall
English Philosopher, Theologian and Historian who expounded a theory known as Ideal Utilitarianism
"The business of psychology is to tell us what actually goes on in the mind. It cannot possibly tell us whether the beliefs are true or false."
"On a non-theistic view of the Universe...the moral law cannot well be thought of as having any actual existence. The objective validity of the moral law can indeed be and no doubt is asserted, believed in and acted upon without reference to any theological creed; but it cannot be defended or fully justified without the presupposition of Theism."