As Mary had learnt from Plotinus, an individual forced to act outside a ‘good society’ cannot rely on like effect to follow like cause, and so must choose without expectation or hope that acting from a good motive – friendship, duty, benevolence, honour – will result in him doing good. Hare, like Plotinus, retreated inward. He fixed in his mind his own set of moral principles, and attempted to bind his future self to them come what may.
