Grice: From pinko to ...?

The Oxford atmosphere is vividly described by Baker (in _The
Conception of Value_, Oxford): -- from some manuscript notes from _her_
mentor:


"The kind of moral, or more or less moral, DISTATE to which [Oxford
philosophers] allude is one which [anyone] brought up in the enlightened
"pinko" (at least on the surface) atmosphere of Oxford [will] 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
influence are usually 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_"

(Baker, _The Conception of Value_, Clarendon, p.58).