A Study of Ethical PrinciplesScribner's Sons, 1898 - 470 páginas |
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... never a res completa , a separate and independent whole : to complete it you must always view it in the totality of its relations , in the entire context of the life of which it is a part . A man does not , in general , make up his mind ...
... never a res completa , a separate and independent whole : to complete it you must always view it in the totality of its relations , in the entire context of the life of which it is a part . A man does not , in general , make up his mind ...
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... never strictly is . So that , while the ethical category has changed from the summum bonum of the ancients to the duty and law of the moderns , the underlying conception is the same , and the logic of the transition from the one ...
... never strictly is . So that , while the ethical category has changed from the summum bonum of the ancients to the duty and law of the moderns , the underlying conception is the same , and the logic of the transition from the one ...
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... never forget the dependence of ethics as a normative science upon the natural science of ethics . As we have just seen , the reflective formula- tion of morality is , like morality itself , progressive . It follows that the complete ...
... never forget the dependence of ethics as a normative science upon the natural science of ethics . As we have just seen , the reflective formula- tion of morality is , like morality itself , progressive . It follows that the complete ...
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... never be either scientific or metaphysical . In other words , if a proposition announcing obligation require proof at all , one term of that proof must always be a proposition announcing obligation , which itself requires no proof ...
... never be either scientific or metaphysical . In other words , if a proposition announcing obligation require proof at all , one term of that proof must always be a proposition announcing obligation , which itself requires no proof ...
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... never possible to compare our ordinary judgments of worth with an external and extraordinary standard of value . The criticism of common - sense is always immanent , never transcendent . The problem is to find the centre of the circle ...
... never possible to compare our ordinary judgments of worth with an external and extraordinary standard of value . The criticism of common - sense is always immanent , never transcendent . The problem is to find the centre of the circle ...
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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.