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The Morality of Sins
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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Once upon a time, at an examination for Fellowships at All Souls, there was a three-hour essay paper. When the eager candidates turned over their question-papers, on the reverse they found a blank expanse of whiteness with one little word in the centre for them to write about: the word was ‘SIN’.
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page 227 note 1 The Concept of Sin (Cambridge, 1912), chs. III–VI.
page 228 note 1 Strawson, P. F., Social Morality and Individual Ideal. In Christian Ethics and Contemporary Philosophy, ed. Ramsey, I. T. (London, 1966), ch. 15.Google Scholar
page 229 note 1 It is in this sense that Matthew 5:28 is defensible.
page 230 note 1 Jonah I: 1–3.
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page 234 note 1 Ibid.
page 234 note 2 ‘insincere’ op.cit. (1952), pp. 19–20, 169; (1963), pp. 79, 83; also Moral Thinking (1981), p. 185; ‘amoral’ op.cit. (1981), pp. 183–7.
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