Introduction to EthicsScribner, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... half - truths , dangerous . But the best way to combat them is to prove their falseness ; the best cure for a half - truth is always a whole truth . CHAPTER II THEORIES OF CONSCIENCE 1 1. Introduction . - THE NATURE AND METHODS OF ETHICS ...
... half - truths , dangerous . But the best way to combat them is to prove their falseness ; the best cure for a half - truth is always a whole truth . CHAPTER II THEORIES OF CONSCIENCE 1 1. Introduction . - THE NATURE AND METHODS OF ETHICS ...
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... prove that twice two is four , you can- not and need not prove that stealing is wrong . It is as absurd to doubt the one fact as it is to doubt the other . And whence did man obtain this won- derful power , you ask ? Well , it is an ...
... prove that twice two is four , you can- not and need not prove that stealing is wrong . It is as absurd to doubt the one fact as it is to doubt the other . And whence did man obtain this won- derful power , you ask ? Well , it is an ...
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... prove , however , that there exists a primi- tive sentiment of duty in the abstract , any more than the conduct of the miser proves that we are born with the love of gold in the abstract . " It is the tendency of association to erect ...
... prove , however , that there exists a primi- tive sentiment of duty in the abstract , any more than the conduct of the miser proves that we are born with the love of gold in the abstract . " It is the tendency of association to erect ...
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Frank Thilly. For the facts cited , chapter after chapter , unite in proving that the sentiments and ideas current in each society become adjusted to the kinds of activity predominating in it . A life of constant external enmity ...
Frank Thilly. For the facts cited , chapter after chapter , unite in proving that the sentiments and ideas current in each society become adjusted to the kinds of activity predominating in it . A life of constant external enmity ...
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... prove them . They are inherent in the mind , original possessions of reason , a priori , innate . Other writers believe that we immediately perceive the rightness and wrongness of acts , that as soon as an act is presented to ...
... prove them . They are inherent in the mind , original possessions of reason , a priori , innate . Other writers believe that we immediately perceive the rightness and wrongness of acts , that as soon as an act is presented to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
absolute According action altruistic antece antecedents approval Aristippus Aristotle arouses categorical imperative cause chap character conscience consciousness desire Diogenes Laertius effects egoistic element end or purpose Epicurus Ethik evil existence fact faculty fear feeling of obligation happiness hedonism hedonistic Hence highest human idea ideal impulses individual innate instincts intuition Intuitionism J. S. Mill judge Kant Leibniz live mankind Martineau means ment mental mind modes of conduct moral code moral judgments moral law motive movements murder nature Nicomachean Ethics object Paulsen perform person pessimism phenomena Philosophy pleasure and pain pleasure or pain preservation principle psychical Psychology race realize reason regard Richard Cumberland right and wrong right or wrong sake Schopenhauer science of ethics sense Sextus Empiricus social society soul strive synderesis teleological tendency theory things thou tion translation truth universal Utilitarianism vidual virtue volition welfare Wundt
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Página 288 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan...
Página 122 - But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ died.
Página 303 - Tired with all these, for restful death I cry — As, to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn, And gilded honour shamefully misplaced, And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, And right perfection wrongfully disgraced, And strength by limping sway disabled, And art made tongue-tied by authority...
Página 291 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Página 170 - Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
Página 98 - STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe, From vain temptations dost set free, And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
Página 97 - And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Página 170 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
Página 108 - Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Página 299 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.