Introduction to EthicsScribner, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... human mind observes and endeavors . to understand . It notices that things and occur- rences are , to a certain extent , uniform and constant , that nature is regular and orderly . The intellect of man strives to detect similarities or ...
... human mind observes and endeavors . to understand . It notices that things and occur- rences are , to a certain extent , uniform and constant , that nature is regular and orderly . The intellect of man strives to detect similarities or ...
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... human soul , only because they pro- voke peculiar ethical feelings and judgments in us . Acts which are capable of exciting such judgments fall within the province of the science of ethics . There could be no science of ethics if no one ...
... human soul , only because they pro- voke peculiar ethical feelings and judgments in us . Acts which are capable of exciting such judgments fall within the province of the science of ethics . There could be no science of ethics if no one ...
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... human beings . We expect the act to have a mental or psychical background . When the act is the expression of a conscious human being , we feel like judging it morally . But when we are told that the agent did not control it , that it ...
... human beings . We expect the act to have a mental or psychical background . When the act is the expression of a conscious human being , we feel like judging it morally . But when we are told that the agent did not control it , that it ...
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... human conduct , that is , con- sciously purposive action.1 We must not forget , however , that this was not always the case , and is not even now , perhaps , universally true . But it makes no difference to us here upon what the mind ...
... human conduct , that is , con- sciously purposive action.1 We must not forget , however , that this was not always the case , and is not even now , perhaps , universally true . But it makes no difference to us here upon what the mind ...
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... human beings , it will necessarily have something to do with the science of human nature . If ethics has to examine the conduct of man , and if conduct is not merely physical movement , but the outward expression , or sign , or aspect ...
... human beings , it will necessarily have something to do with the science of human nature . If ethics has to examine the conduct of man , and if conduct is not merely physical movement , but the outward expression , or sign , or aspect ...
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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 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 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 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.
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 294 - twill be eleven ; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale.
Página 173 - According to the Greatest Happiness Principle, as above explained, the ultimate end, with reference to and for the sake of which all other things are desirable (whether we are considering our own good or that of other people), is an existence exempt as far as possible from pain, and as rich as possible in enjoyments, both in point of quantity and quality...