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     Justice - Personal and Impersonal attitudes - (p. 313)
 
 


- Horton's view is false, since justice is not coldly-logical but rather humane-personal-emotional. When we compare the primitive African tribes to Western modern people, we are not comparing a subjective personal, unjust notion of justice to a pure impartial justice. Western morality is ailing, and the symptom of its illness is its attempt to uproot emotion and to act only according to logic. The primitive African tribes' morality is one which draws on religious faith, and as such is more emotional than that which Westerners espouse. Fortunately, the analytic morality Westerners champion does not successfully eradicate from their hearts the morality that is connected to emotion - a blessed consequence of Western morality's failure.
 
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