[…] it must be the Modus of some other Substance latitant in the fluid Matter, and really distinguishable from it; which is either the Soul, or some seminal Form or Archeus, as the Chymist calls it […]
Look over there. That kid is cracking out.
Piaget² has conducted many careful studies on the evolu-
tion of games during childhood, and has suggested that moral
behavior consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all
morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual
acquires for these rules."³ Piaget thus equates morality, or
ethical feeling and conduct, with the individual's attitude
toward and practice of various rules. This perspective provides
a rational basis for the analysis of moral schemes as games,
and of moral behavior as the players' actual conduct.
Therefore, welcome new Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper, a man about whom even my esteemed political journalist friends know little - apart from the fact he was once Chief Whip, a job that requires knowing about every Tory MP's misdemeanours.