Principles of ethicsD. Appleton & Company, 1898 |
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... respect for this law in the average of cases , being the condition under which alone gregariousness can continue , it becomes an imperative law for creatures to which gregariousness is a benefit . But , obviously , this secondary law is ...
... respect for this law in the average of cases , being the condition under which alone gregariousness can continue , it becomes an imperative law for creatures to which gregariousness is a benefit . But , obviously , this secondary law is ...
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... respect that since its aggregate suffers less mortality from incidental destructive agencies , each of its members continues on the average for a longer time subject to the normal relation between conduct and consequence ; and here we ...
... respect that since its aggregate suffers less mortality from incidental destructive agencies , each of its members continues on the average for a longer time subject to the normal relation between conduct and consequence ; and here we ...
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... respect for one another's claims , and so to make social co - operation possible . § 265. Creatures which become gregarious tend to be- come sympathetic in degrees proportionate to their intelli- gences . Not , indeed , that the ...
... respect for one another's claims , and so to make social co - operation possible . § 265. Creatures which become gregarious tend to be- come sympathetic in degrees proportionate to their intelli- gences . Not , indeed , that the ...
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... respect the limit which compromise implies : there is no thought of intrinsic flagitiousness in aggression , but only of its impolicy . Further , the limit to each man's ac- tions , described as " a mean or compromise , " and respect ...
... respect the limit which compromise implies : there is no thought of intrinsic flagitiousness in aggression , but only of its impolicy . Further , the limit to each man's ac- tions , described as " a mean or compromise , " and respect ...
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... respecting community of wives & c . in the guardian - class , have for their avowed purpose to estab- lish , even within that class , unequal privileges for the bene- fit of the superior . That the notion of justice had this general ...
... respecting community of wives & c . in the guardian - class , have for their avowed purpose to estab- lish , even within that class , unequal privileges for the bene- fit of the superior . That the notion of justice had this general ...
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...