Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 10 (p. 333)
“The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation.”
Source: The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism
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