Principles of ethicsD. Appleton & Company, 1898 |
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... higher types ( for in the lower types , parents give to off- spring no other aid than that of laying up small amounts of nutriment with their germs : the result being that an enor- mous mortality has to be balanced by an enormous fertil ...
... higher types ( for in the lower types , parents give to off- spring no other aid than that of laying up small amounts of nutriment with their germs : the result being that an enor- mous mortality has to be balanced by an enormous fertil ...
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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 , su- periority 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 , su- periority 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 , sec- ond in order of time and authority , that those actions . through ...
... 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 , sec- ond in order of time and authority , that those actions . through ...
Términos y frases comunes
achieved actions activities acts advantage aggression altruistic arises assertion become belief carried caused CHAPTER citizens civilized claims co-operation conception concerning conduct consequent contract corollary creatures developed duty effects egoistic entailed equal freedom equitable established ethics evils existing fact feelings Fijians Fuegians further give greater gregarious happiness Hence human idea implies individual inferior inflicted injury interdict kind labour law of equal Lepchas less liberty limits lives Lord Salisbury maintained maintenance maleficent men at large men's rights ment mental militant moral multitudinous nature needful negative beneficence organization ownership pain parents person pleasure political possession present principle produced prompted racters reason recognition recognized regard relation respect restraints right of property rightly self-injury sentiment of justice shown Sir Henry Maine social society species spect suffer superior sympathy tacitly thegns things thought tion tribes truth vidual welfare women
Pasajes populares
Página 52 - Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Página 46 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
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 95 - 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, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Página 444 - 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.
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 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 461 - We need not, however, rest satisfied with an induction from these instances yielded by the essential vital functions ; for it is an inevitable deduction from the hypothesis of Evolution, that races of sentient creatures could have come into existence under no other conditions.
Página 53 - the law of nature," because its general precepts are essentially adapted to promote the happiness of man, as long as he remains a being of the same nature with which he is at present endowed, or, in other words, as long as he continues to be man, in all the variety of times, places, and circumstances, in which he has been known, or can be imagined to exist ; because it is discoverable by natural reason...
Página 41 - 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 heing supplied, Bentham's dictum, ' everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one...