Givler treats ethics as a natural science, a branch of mechanistic psychology, and argues that our moral vocabulary grew out of the body’s own movements. Chapter by chapter he traces the words good, bad, right, wrong, virtue and vice back to action-patterns of muscle and limb, noting for instance how the stronger right hand gave its name to rightness.
An unusual 1924 experiment in behaviourist moral philosophy for readers curious about the roots of ethical language. Download the free EPUB.