A Study of Ethical PrinciplesScribner's Sons, 1898 - 470 páginas |
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... action . 294 10. The ethical functions of the State : ( a ) justice 296 11. ( b ) Benevolence 304 12. The permanence of the State 310 Note . The Theory of Punishment 312 CHAPTER III . MORAL PROGRESS . 1. The nature of moral progress • 2 ...
... action . 294 10. The ethical functions of the State : ( a ) justice 296 11. ( b ) Benevolence 304 12. The permanence of the State 310 Note . The Theory of Punishment 312 CHAPTER III . MORAL PROGRESS . 1. The nature of moral progress • 2 ...
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... action which may not be regarded as , directly or indirectly , an exponent of character , so there is no most secret thought or impulse of the mind but mani- fests itself in the life of conduct . Nor can the intel- lectual and emotional ...
... action which may not be regarded as , directly or indirectly , an exponent of character , so there is no most secret thought or impulse of the mind but mani- fests itself in the life of conduct . Nor can the intel- lectual and emotional ...
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... action ; and in order to act , the self must also feel and know . Only thus can it act as a self . The question of ethics , accordingly , may be stated in either of two forms : ( 1 ) What is man's chief end ? or ( 2 ) What is the true ...
... action ; and in order to act , the self must also feel and know . Only thus can it act as a self . The question of ethics , accordingly , may be stated in either of two forms : ( 1 ) What is man's chief end ? or ( 2 ) What is the true ...
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... action im- plies a purpose , that is , a thought of something to be done , and therefore worth doing . The individual action does not stand alone , it connects itself with others , and these again with others , in the past and in the ...
... action im- plies a purpose , that is , a thought of something to be done , and therefore worth doing . The individual action does not stand alone , it connects itself with others , and these again with others , in the past and in the ...
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... action , or consider it on its own merits ; he refers it to its place in the general scheme or plan of life which he has adopted at some time in the past . But such a scheme or plan of life is already an implicit theory of life . It is ...
... action , or consider it on its own merits ; he refers it to its place in the general scheme or plan of life which he has adopted at some time in the past . But such a scheme or plan of life is already an implicit theory of life . It is ...
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Términos y frases comunes
absolute action activity actual æsthetic altruism ancient animal Aristotle attainment become benevolence called character choice Christianity citizen claim common conception conduct constitute Cyrenaic Cyrenaicism distinction divine dualism duty egoism element Epicurean essential ethical theory evil evolution experience external F. H. Bradley fact feeling freedom Greek happiness Hedonism hedonistic higher human idea implies impulse individual insight intellectual interests interpretation Intuitionism J. S. Mill justice Kant less live logical man's means merely metaphysical modern moral ideal moral law moral progress moralists nature ness never normative science object organisation pain perfect personality philosophy Plato pleasure political possible principle problem prudence psychological question rational realisation reality reason recognise reflection regard relation scientific self-realisation sense sensibility sentient Sidgwick social society Socrates soul sphere spirit Stoicism Stoics supreme T. H. Green tendency things thought tion true truth ultimate unity universal Utilitarianism vidual virtue
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Página 228 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.
Página 157 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Página 403 - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
Página 224 - Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, Die eine will sich von der andern trennen; Die eine hält in derber Liebeslust Sich an die Welt mit klammernden Organen; Die andre hebt gewaltsam sich vom Dust Zu den Gefilden hoher Ahnen.
Página 95 - But there is no known Epicurean theory of life which does not assign to the pleasures of the intellect, of the feelings and imagination, and of the moral sentiments, a much higher value as pleasures than to those of mere sensation.
Página 93 - I must again repeat what the assailants of utilitarianism seldom have the justice to acknowledge, that the happiness which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct is not the agent's own happiness but that of all concerned. As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.