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The Soul's Conquest of Evil1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2010

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In his autobiography, Mr Leonard Woolf very forcibly protests Lord Keynes's familiar account of the kind of influence G. E. Moore had exerted over those who were later to become members of the Bloomsbury Group. You will remember that Keynes, writing in 1938 about his early beliefs as an undergraduate at Cambridge, maintained of himself and his companions: ‘We accepted Moore's religion … and discarded his morals … meaning by “religion” one's attitude towards oneself and the ultimate and by “morals” one's attitude towards the outside world and the intermediate.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1968

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