A Study of Ethical PrinciplesScribner's Sons, 1898 - 470 páginas |
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... elements , ( a ) pause ; ( b ) deliberation ; ( c ) choice . 5. Nature and character . Effort . Second nature 1995 45 49 6. Limitations of volition : ( a ) economy ; ( b ) continuity ; ( c ) fixity of character 53 7. Intellectual elements ...
... elements , ( a ) pause ; ( b ) deliberation ; ( c ) choice . 5. Nature and character . Effort . Second nature 1995 45 49 6. Limitations of volition : ( a ) economy ; ( b ) continuity ; ( c ) fixity of character 53 7. Intellectual elements ...
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... element in human activity , its human element par excellence , as distinguished from its particular , technical , and accidental elements . Not that the moral is a smaller and sacred sphere within the wider spheres of secular interests ...
... element in human activity , its human element par excellence , as distinguished from its particular , technical , and accidental elements . Not that the moral is a smaller and sacred sphere within the wider spheres of secular interests ...
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... , and we may say it is equivalent to purposive activity , or more strictly , in conformity with what has just been said , con- sciously purposive activity . It is the element of purpose 4 Introduction (8) Kantian transcendentalism.
... , and we may say it is equivalent to purposive activity , or more strictly , in conformity with what has just been said , con- sciously purposive activity . It is the element of purpose 4 Introduction (8) Kantian transcendentalism.
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James Seth. sciously purposive activity . It is the element of purpose , the choice of ends and of the means towards their accom- plishment , that constitutes conduct ; and it is this inner side of conduct that we are to study . Now ...
James Seth. sciously purposive activity . It is the element of purpose , the choice of ends and of the means towards their accom- plishment , that constitutes conduct ; and it is this inner side of conduct that we are to study . Now ...
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... element from the first , is , in its beginnings , and for long , a matter of instinct , of tradition , of authority . Moral progress , whether in the individual or in the race , may be largely accounted for as a blind struggle of moral ...
... element from the first , is , in its beginnings , and for long , a matter of instinct , of tradition , of authority . Moral progress , whether in the individual or in the race , may be largely accounted for as a blind struggle of moral ...
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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.