Grice e Zubiena

 The kind of moral (or more or less moral) distaste to which Foot briefly alludes is one which I feel that, as someone brought up in the enlightened 'pinko' (at least on the surface) atmosphere of Oxford, as it used to be, I understand very well. We are in reaction against our Victorian

forebears; we are independent and we are tolerant of the independence of others, unless they go too far. We don't like discipline, rules (except for rules of games and rules designed to secure peace and quiet in Colleges), self-conscious authority, and lectures or reproaches about conduct (which are usually ineffective anyway, since those whom they are supposed to influenceare usually either too sensitive or not sensitive enough). Above all we dislike punishment, which only too often just plays into the hands of those who are arrogant or vindictive. We don't much care to talk about "values" (pompous) or "duties" (stuffy, unless one means the duties of servants or the military, or money extorted by the customs people). Our watchwords (if we could be moved to utter them) would be 'Live and let live, though not necessarily with me around' or 'If you don't like how I carry on, you don't have to spend time with me.? With these underlying attitudes, it is not surprising that we don't find Kant congenial, and that we do very much like

Strawson's Freedom and Resentment.