Full Idea
Equality and the absence of authority are the only conditions essential to the morality of every man.
Gist of Idea
Morality just needs equality and an absence of authority
Source
Mikhail Bakunin (Science and the Urgent Revolutionary Task [1870], p.128)
A Reaction
The anarchist's view of the basics of morality. I like the recognition that even the most personal morality has a social and political dimension. It is a Kantian view that morality from authority is not the real thing, which needs personal judgement.
Book Reference
'The Anarchists', ed/tr. Horowitz,Irving L. [Dell 1964], p.128
Related Idea
Idea 24419 The minority in a vote make a moral judgement which is then forcibly overruled [Wolff,RP]