"[This is] the doctrine that we cannot accept the command of an authority, however exalted, as the ultimate basis of ethics. For whenever we are faced with a command by an authority, it is our responsibility to judge whether this command is moral or immoral. The authority may have power to enforce its commands, and we may be powerless to resist. But unless we are physically prevented from choosing the responsibility remains ours. It is our decision whether to obey a command, whether to accept authority. "

Immanuel Kant

Peer groups, Cumbria spring group – first morning: a 3 layer view of interpersonal & intrapersonal judgement

6th May 2010

Nearly every year for the last twenty years I've come down to a four day Spring residential "Mixed Group" in Cumbria. I wrote about this group last year and the year before, and I'm also involved with a similar pattern of autumn "Men's Groups". As a psychotherapist who works with …

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