A Study of Ethical PrinciplesScribner's Sons, 1898 - 470 páginas |
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... question 398 2. Agnosticism and Positivism 3. Naturalism 4. Man and nature 401 405 409 5. The modern statement of the problem 414 6. Its ancient statement 416 7. The Christian solution 421 8. The ideal and the real 422 9. The ...
... question 398 2. Agnosticism and Positivism 3. Naturalism 4. Man and nature 401 405 409 5. The modern statement of the problem 414 6. Its ancient statement 416 7. The Christian solution 421 8. The ideal and the real 422 9. The ...
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... question of ethics , accordingly , may be stated in either of two forms : ( 1 ) What is man's chief end ? or ( 2 ) ... question resolves itself into the other : Which , among the possible selves , is the true or ideal self ? Into what ...
... question of ethics , accordingly , may be stated in either of two forms : ( 1 ) What is man's chief end ? or ( 2 ) ... question resolves itself into the other : Which , among the possible selves , is the true or ideal self ? Into what ...
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... 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 business of ordinary thought - is to ...
... 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 business of ordinary thought - is to ...
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... question of ethics as a Now when this ethical question is urged , there is at once revealed a seemingly chaotic variety of goods , which refuse to be reduced to any common denominator . One man's meat is another man's poison . If the ...
... question of ethics as a Now when this ethical question is urged , there is at once revealed a seemingly chaotic variety of goods , which refuse to be reduced to any common denominator . One man's meat is another man's poison . If the ...
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... question whether we can , with Aristotle , extend it to the universe , and include the human in the divine or universal end . Human life , at any rate , is unintelligible apart from the idea of purpose ; the teleological and the ethical ...
... question whether we can , with Aristotle , extend it to the universe , and include the human in the divine or universal end . Human life , at any rate , is unintelligible apart from the idea of purpose ; the teleological and the ethical ...
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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.