Principles of ethicsD. Appleton & Company, 1898 |
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... inferior , which entails a general diminution of welfare ; and it must suffer remotely by further increase of the inferior which , by implication , hinders increase of the superior , and causes a general deterioration , ending in 6 JUSTICE ...
... inferior , which entails a general diminution of welfare ; and it must suffer remotely by further increase of the inferior which , by implication , hinders increase of the superior , and causes a general deterioration , ending in 6 JUSTICE ...
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... inferior individuals shall receive smaller benefits , or suffer greater evils , or both — a law which , under its biological aspect , has for its implication the survival of the fittest . Interpreted in ethical terms , it is that each ...
... inferior individuals shall receive smaller benefits , or suffer greater evils , or both — a law which , under its biological aspect , has for its implication the survival of the fittest . Interpreted in ethical terms , it is that each ...
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... inferior and superior individuals . There are the multitudinous deaths caused by inclemencies of weather , which , in the great majority of cases , the best members of the species are liable to like the worst . There are other ...
... inferior and superior individuals . There are the multitudinous deaths caused by inclemencies of weather , which , in the great majority of cases , the best members of the species are liable to like the worst . There are other ...
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... inferior creatures , the law by conformity to which the species is preserved , is that among adults the individuals best adapted to the conditions of their existence shall prosper most , and that individuals least adapted to the ...
... inferior creatures , the law by conformity to which the species is preserved , is that among adults the individuals best adapted to the conditions of their existence shall prosper most , and that individuals least adapted to the ...
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... inferior . We saw that a high species of animal is distinguished from a low species , in the respect that since its aggregate suffers less mortality from incidental destructive agencies , each of its members continues on the average for ...
... inferior . We saw that a high species of animal is distinguished from a low species , in the respect that since its aggregate suffers less mortality from incidental destructive agencies , each of its members continues on the average for ...
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...