Principles of ethicsD. Appleton & Company, 1898 |
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... practically if not theoretically , that each indi- vidual carrying on the actions which subserve his life , and not prevented from receiving their normal results , good and bad , shall carry on these actions under such restraints as are ...
... practically if not theoretically , that each indi- vidual carrying on the actions which subserve his life , and not prevented from receiving their normal results , good and bad , shall carry on these actions under such restraints as are ...
Página 74
... practically a limitation of cannibalism , and in so far a progress . When the prisoner of war was allowed to live and work instead of being cooked and eaten , the fundamental principle of equity was no longer absolutely negatived in his ...
... practically a limitation of cannibalism , and in so far a progress . When the prisoner of war was allowed to live and work instead of being cooked and eaten , the fundamental principle of equity was no longer absolutely negatived in his ...
Página 75
... practically chronic , slavery was assumed to be a normal part of the social order . Lapse into bondage by capture , debt , or otherwise , was regarded as a misfortune ; and no reprobation attached to the slave- owner . That is to say ...
... practically chronic , slavery was assumed to be a normal part of the social order . Lapse into bondage by capture , debt , or otherwise , was regarded as a misfortune ; and no reprobation attached to the slave- owner . That is to say ...
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... practically inherited the governmental powers which in past times vested in the king , it has at the same time inherited that ultimate pro- prietorship of the soil which in past times vested in him . And since the representative body is ...
... practically inherited the governmental powers which in past times vested in the king , it has at the same time inherited that ultimate pro- prietorship of the soil which in past times vested in him . And since the representative body is ...
Página 92
... right to the use of the Earth , pos- sessed by each citizen , is traversed by established ar- rangements to so great an extent as to be practically suspended ; yet its existence as an equitable claim cannot 92 JUSTICE .
... right to the use of the Earth , pos- sessed by each citizen , is traversed by established ar- rangements to so great an extent as to be practically suspended ; yet its existence as an equitable claim cannot 92 JUSTICE .
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...