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=== Shaftonic Age ===
=== Shaftonic Age ===
[[Shafto]] introduces virtue, introspection, and a generalised concept of duty. Guilt enters the equation of social control. Notions of “higher good”, “greater good”, and (in political thought) “public good” crystallise. Along with hierarchies of goods, relational and role-based sets of duties become more formally defined as people encounter more complex moral dilemmas in an increasingly sophisticated society.
[[Shafto]] introduces virtue, introspection, and a generalised concept of duty. Guilt enters the equation of social control. Notions of “higher good”, “greater good”, and (in political thought) “public good” crystallise. Along with hierarchies of goods, relational and role-based sets of duties become more formally defined as people encounter more complex moral dilemmas in an increasingly sophisticated society.
{{Cquote|The point is, to whomever yet listens, that ''guilt'' - for lack of a better word - is ''good''.<br>Guilt is right.<br>Guilt works.<br>Guilt clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of Man's error and weakness, and guilt, better than any other emotion, edifies Man's spirit.<br>Guilt, in all of its forms -- guilt for crime, for dishonour, for [redacted], for vice -- has marked the upward surge of mankind.<br>And guilt - mark my words - will not only save the Thinking Man from himself, but also save this Empire from the barbarism that dwells in even the highest and most noble lineages.
|author= [[Shaftonism|Shafto]]
|source= ''Analects of Shafto the Wise''
}}


Although [[moral compartmentalism]] is not itself a ''part'' of Shaftonist thought, the role-based and relational conception of moral duties in Shaftonism nonetheless opens the door for it.
Although [[moral compartmentalism]] is not itself a ''part'' of Shaftonist thought, the role-based and relational conception of moral duties in Shaftonism nonetheless opens the door for it.
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