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Accordingly, he is reconciled to the fact of his helplessness to do anything without coordinating his own interest with that of his neighbours." The foregoing is illustrative of the sterility of Bertrand Russell's moral philosophy, based --as it is on the crucial stipulation that an individual can (or ought to) serve his own interest and, at the same time, safeguard the rights and interests of the general public.

This is so, considering that no norms of individual and group behaviour can be identical. Evidently, certain hypothetical assumptions underlie the new morality proposed by Russell. For one thing, he implies that individuals and groups in a society can always manage to employ their benign powers envisaged under the proposed new morality. Secondly, he…