A Study of Ethical PrinciplesScribner's Sons, 1898 - 470 páginas |
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... claim him for itself . The latter question is , like the former , first a practical and then a theoretical ques- tion ; in the one case , as in the other , " knowledge is power . " The first business of thought about the world the ...
... claim him for itself . The latter question is , like the former , first a practical and then a theoretical ques- tion ; in the one case , as in the other , " knowledge is power . " The first business of thought about the world the ...
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... claims of morality will not be satisfied until the rigour of these claims is understood . All moral awaken- ing is primarily an intellectual awakening , a repentance or change of mind ( μετάνοια ) . Moral insight is the necessary ...
... claims of morality will not be satisfied until the rigour of these claims is understood . All moral awaken- ing is primarily an intellectual awakening , a repentance or change of mind ( μετάνοια ) . Moral insight is the necessary ...
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... claims of righteousness become paramount - do the right , though the heavens fall . The danger for this view is the tendency so to exaggerate the notion of law as to conceive of life as mere obedience to a code of rules or precepts - to ...
... claims of righteousness become paramount - do the right , though the heavens fall . The danger for this view is the tendency so to exaggerate the notion of law as to conceive of life as mere obedience to a code of rules or precepts - to ...
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... claims of self with the claims of society — a difficulty which can hardly be said to have existed for the ancients , who had not yet separated the individual from his society , and to whom , accordingly , the two interests were one and ...
... claims of self with the claims of society — a difficulty which can hardly be said to have existed for the ancients , who had not yet separated the individual from his society , and to whom , accordingly , the two interests were one and ...
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... claims of the social and of the individual life overlap , and are reciprocally inclusive . These are not two lives ... claim such private property as to exclude his fellows ; their good is his , and his theirs . Yet the good - the only ...
... claims of the social and of the individual life overlap , and are reciprocally inclusive . These are not two lives ... claim such private property as to exclude his fellows ; their good is his , and his theirs . Yet the good - the only ...
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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.