Introduction to EthicsScribner, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... 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 uniformities in things and actions , and to arrange these in groups ...
... 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 uniformities in things and actions , and to arrange these in groups ...
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... things ? The tendency to find out the why and wherefore of things is universal ; it manifests itself in the child who wonders " what makes the wheels go round " in his plaything , no less than in the natural philosopher who longs to ...
... things ? The tendency to find out the why and wherefore of things is universal ; it manifests itself in the child who wonders " what makes the wheels go round " in his plaything , no less than in the natural philosopher who longs to ...
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... things or to leave them undone , they recognize the authority of cer- tain rules or laws , and acknowledge their binding 1 Compare the titles of the works of Paley , Stewart , Reid , Cal- derwood , Porter , Bain , Bentham , Whewell ...
... things or to leave them undone , they recognize the authority of cer- tain rules or laws , and acknowledge their binding 1 Compare the titles of the works of Paley , Stewart , Reid , Cal- derwood , Porter , Bain , Bentham , Whewell ...
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... things . - 4. The Data of Ethics . We have stated in a general way what is the subject - matter with which our science deals , and how it is to be treated . Let us now attempt to show what differentiates ethical . facts from other facts ...
... things . - 4. The Data of Ethics . We have stated in a general way what is the subject - matter with which our science deals , and how it is to be treated . Let us now attempt to show what differentiates ethical . facts from other facts ...
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... things , if no one ever called things right and wrong . If the contemplation of certain acts and motives did not arouse in us ethical feelings and judgments , there could be no science of ethics because there would be no facts for ...
... things , if no one ever called things right and wrong . If the contemplation of certain acts and motives did not arouse in us ethical feelings and judgments , there could be no science of ethics because there would be no facts for ...
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Términos y frases comunes
absolute According act is right Anniceris antecedents approval Aristippus Aristotle arouses categorical imperative cause chap conscience consciousness Cyrenaics desire Diogenes Laertius effects egoistic element end or purpose Epicurus Ethik evil existence fact faculty fear feeling of obligation forms of conduct hedonism hedonistic Hence highest Höffding 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 judgments moral law movements murder nature Nicomachean Ethics object Paulsen perform phenomena Philosophy pleasure and pain pleasure or pain pleasure-pains preservation 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 stealing strive synderesis teleological tend to produce tendency theory things thou tion translation truth Utilitarianism virtue volition welfare Wundt
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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...