Grice on ill-will

From PPQ, vol. 67, p. 29.

Grice quotes extensively, typically, from Abbott's Kant, and remarks: "no doubt mutatis mutandis something comparable could be said about the BAD will."

Kant had said:

"Even if it should happen that owing

to the special disfavour of fortune,

or the niggardly provision of a step-motherly nature,

this WILL should wholly lack power

to accomplish its purpose, if in its

greatest efforts it should achieve nothing,

and there should remain only the GOOD will

(not, to be sure, a mere wish, but the

SUMMONING of all means in our power), then,

like a jewel, it would still SHINE

by its own light, as a thing which

has its whole value in itself."



------ How ill-will can shine like that is due to Grice's genius!