Justice: Being Part IV of The Principles of EthicsD. Appleton, 1892 - 299 páginas |
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... higher types ( for in the lower types , parents give to offspring no other aid than that of laying up small amounts of nutriment with their germs : the result being that an enormous mortality has to be balanced by an enormous fertility ) ...
... higher types ( for in the lower types , parents give to offspring no other aid than that of laying up small amounts of nutriment with their germs : the result being that an enormous mortality has to be balanced by an enormous fertility ) ...
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... higher forms . By care of offspring , which has become greater with advancing organization , and by survival of the fittest in the competition among adults , which has become more habitual with advancing organization , superiority has ...
... higher forms . By care of offspring , which has become greater with advancing organization , and by survival of the fittest in the competition among adults , which has become more habitual with advancing organization , superiority has ...
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... higher . Whether this or that fly is taken by a swallow , whether among a brood of caterpillars an ichneumon settles on this or that , whether out of a shoal of herrings this or that is swallowed by a cetacean , is an event quite ...
... higher . Whether this or that fly is taken by a swallow , whether among a brood of caterpillars an ichneumon settles on this or that , whether out of a shoal of herrings this or that is swallowed by a cetacean , is an event quite ...
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... higher end , it results that where an occasional mor- tality of individuals in defence of the species furthers this preservation in a greater degree than would pursuit of ex- clusive benefit by each individual , that which we recognize ...
... higher end , it results that where an occasional mor- tality of individuals in defence of the species furthers this preservation in a greater degree than would pursuit of ex- clusive benefit by each individual , that which we recognize ...
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... higher of them for the rearing of offspring . Among gregarious creatures , and in an increasing degree as they co - operate more , there comes into play the law , second in order of time and authority , that those actions through which ...
... higher of them for the rearing of offspring . Among gregarious creatures , and in an increasing degree as they co - operate more , there comes into play the law , second in order of time and authority , that those actions through which ...
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achieved Act of Parliament actions activities acts aggression animals appropriate arises assertion become belief benefits carried CHAPTER citizens civilized claims co-operation conception conduct conformity consequent corollary corvée deduction developed Dogribs duty egoistic equal freedom equitable established ethics evils existing experience fact feeling Fijians functions further gradually greater habitually Hence human idea implies individual induction industrial inference inferior injury interdict kind labour land law of equal legislation Lepchas liberty limits Lord Salisbury maintained maintenance men at large men's men's rights ment mental militant moral multitudinous nature needful organization ownership political possession present principle produced prompted punishment recognition recognized regarded relation requirements respect restraints right of property self-subordination sentiency sentiment of justice shown Sir Henry Maine social Social Statics society species stages sub-human justice superior sustentation tacitly thegns things thought tion trespass tribes truth vidual women
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Página 52 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Página 52 - Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Página 53 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Página 94 - The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Página 41 - Principle. That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree (with the proper allowance made for kind). is counted for exactly as much as another's. Those conditions being supplied, Bentham's dictum, "everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one.
Página 94 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Página 222 - Spencer's formula of justice, "the liberty of each limited only by the like liberties of all," represents the ideal which Amercan law has had before it during its whole existence.
Página 53 - The value and serviceableness of the conception arose from its keeping before the mental vision a type of perfect law, and from its inspiring the hope of an indefinite approximation to it, at the same time that it never tempted the practitioner or the citizen to deny the obligation of existing laws which had not yet been adjusted to the theory.
Página 264 - And then there follows this section : — "UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF RIGHT. " ' Every Action is rigid which in itself, or in the maxim on which it proceeds, is such that it can co-exist along with the Freedom of the Will of each and all in action, according to a universal Law.
Página 274 - It is not for nothing that he has in him these sympathies with some principles and repugnance to others. He, with all his capacities and aspirations, and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future; and that his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die.