Introduction to EthicsScribner, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... Virtues and Vices • · 2. Character . 3. The Freedom of the Will 4. Determinism 5. Theological Theories 6. Metaphysical Theories 7. Reconciliation of Freedom and Determinism 8. Criticism of Indeterminism 9. The Consciousness of Freedom ...
... Virtues and Vices • · 2. Character . 3. The Freedom of the Will 4. Determinism 5. Theological Theories 6. Metaphysical Theories 7. Reconciliation of Freedom and Determinism 8. Criticism of Indeterminism 9. The Consciousness of Freedom ...
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... virtues and duties , e.g. , benevolence , charity , justice , veracity , etc. , and their opposites . Is there a standard or criterion or ideal by which conduct is judged , and what is it ? Can we justify this standard or ideal , or is ...
... virtues and duties , e.g. , benevolence , charity , justice , veracity , etc. , and their opposites . Is there a standard or criterion or ideal by which conduct is judged , and what is it ? Can we justify this standard or ideal , or is ...
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... virtue , which are both true and incom- municable . " But , it might be asked , if there is such an absolute faculty , if the dictates of this conscience or the moral truths engraven on the mind are so certain and universal , how comes ...
... virtue , which are both true and incom- municable . " But , it might be asked , if there is such an absolute faculty , if the dictates of this conscience or the moral truths engraven on the mind are so certain and universal , how comes ...
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... virtues in the list of moral wrongs . But men differ as to the applica- tion of these principles . Conscience cannot be educated . As well teach the eye to see , and the ear to hear , as to teach rea- son to perceive self - evident ...
... virtues in the list of moral wrongs . But men differ as to the applica- tion of these principles . Conscience cannot be educated . As well teach the eye to see , and the ear to hear , as to teach rea- son to perceive self - evident ...
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... Virtue consists in eliminating the latter , and estab- lishing a proper harmony or balance between the others . But how can we tell whether these affec- tions are properly balanced or not ? By means of the moral sense , the sense of ...
... Virtue consists in eliminating the latter , and estab- lishing a proper harmony or balance between the others . But how can we tell whether these affec- tions are properly balanced or not ? By means of the moral sense , the sense of ...
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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.