A quote from an ethics exam for a state license.

Economics Political Theory
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This is a quote from an ethics exam connected with a renewal of a state license for a CPA certificate:

“The social question is the moral question, first, because its ultimate root is a choice between divergent ideals of the state, that , between different ways of viewing and organizing the total human life in time and space; and secondly, because, as a consequence, the question concerning the worth of the labor turns into the question concerning the worth of the laborer”. The history of conscience is the history of the individual where ‘conscience’ means knowing along with " …nothing can be good for one man that is not law for all men."

There was no attribution, which does not sit well with me. It sounds like it could be Marx, but I really have no idea. Does anyone recognize this quote?

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http://www.archive.org/stream/genesisofsocialc00nashiala/genesisofsocialc00nashiala_djvu.txt

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With how poorly its written, it sounds like either Marx or Kant.

Honestly, that sentence flows off the tongue like a brick.

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You should read early Hayek.

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Reading Hayek is like chewing gravel, at least reading road to serfdom was painful..

I can hardly understand what the OP’s quote was trying to say, as it is so poorly worded. All I know is that it must be awful, if it’s written that badly.

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That’s almost not even legible to me.

I get the “you don’t matter, the collective matters” ethos from it though.