Principles of ethicsD. Appleton & Company, 1898 |
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Herbert Spencer. the truth that this violent ending of the immense majority of its lives , implies that the species is one in which justice , as above conceived , is displayed in but small measure . Sub - human justice is extremely ...
Herbert Spencer. the truth that this violent ending of the immense majority of its lives , implies that the species is one in which justice , as above conceived , is displayed in but small measure . Sub - human justice is extremely ...
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... lives , the nature of sub - human justice is thus sufficiently expressed ; but on passing to gregarious creatures we dis- cover in it an element not yet specified . Simple association , as of deer , profits the individual and the ...
... lives , the nature of sub - human justice is thus sufficiently expressed ; but on passing to gregarious creatures we dis- cover in it an element not yet specified . Simple association , as of deer , profits the individual and the ...
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... lives , a principle complicated only by the responsibilities of parenthood . Among them the purely egoistic actions of self - sustentation have , during the repro- ductive period , to be qualified by that self - subordination . which ...
... lives , a principle complicated only by the responsibilities of parenthood . Among them the purely egoistic actions of self - sustentation have , during the repro- ductive period , to be qualified by that self - subordination . which ...
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... lives , save by that self - subordination needed among the 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 ...
... lives , save by that self - subordination needed among the 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 ...
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... one of which the members live on wild food , they associate only in small groups : game and fruits widely distributed , can support these only . But greater gregariousness arises where agriculture 40 HUMAN JUSTICE . 19.
... one of which the members live on wild food , they associate only in small groups : game and fruits widely distributed , can support these only . But greater gregariousness arises where agriculture 40 HUMAN JUSTICE . 19.
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...