Ethics: An Introductory Manual for the Use of University StudentsG. Bell and sons, 1893 - 220 páginas |
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... Kant and Hutcheson among philosophers agree that as long as the motive is right the act is virtuous . Common sense , however , is hardly satisfied with this extreme position . The motives of a Torquemada or a Robespierre may be as pure ...
... Kant and Hutcheson among philosophers agree that as long as the motive is right the act is virtuous . Common sense , however , is hardly satisfied with this extreme position . The motives of a Torquemada or a Robespierre may be as pure ...
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... Kant that the good will is a good apart from the pleasure it brings to us or to others . But the plausibility of Mill's and of Dr. Sidgwick's view really comes from their definition of pleasure as preferable feeling . It is clear that ...
... Kant that the good will is a good apart from the pleasure it brings to us or to others . But the plausibility of Mill's and of Dr. Sidgwick's view really comes from their definition of pleasure as preferable feeling . It is clear that ...
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... Kant , and he identifies rational nature with humanity . This identification is open to question , unless we are willing to take up a definitely atheistic or agnostic position , since rational nature must include God and possible other ...
... Kant , and he identifies rational nature with humanity . This identification is open to question , unless we are willing to take up a definitely atheistic or agnostic position , since rational nature must include God and possible other ...
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... for instance Kant , have asserted that there is no criterion of material rightness - that no act is morally right except such as is done for the formal principle of rightness , viz . , a desire 48 ETHICS . The Standard of Right.
... for instance Kant , have asserted that there is no criterion of material rightness - that no act is morally right except such as is done for the formal principle of rightness , viz . , a desire 48 ETHICS . The Standard of Right.
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... Kant , and of the revolutionary morality of Rousseau . To Rousseau , again , may be traced the crude political theories of modern democracy . The doctrine of the " rights of man " given and guaran- teed by Nature is the central dogma of ...
... Kant , and of the revolutionary morality of Rousseau . To Rousseau , again , may be traced the crude political theories of modern democracy . The doctrine of the " rights of man " given and guaran- teed by Nature is the central dogma of ...
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Ethics: An Introductory Manual for the Use of University Students Frederick Ryland Vista completa - 1893 |
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Ethics: An Introductory Manual for the Use of University Students Frederick Ryland Vista completa - 1893 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 35 - The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it : and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.
Página 86 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
Página 13 - FIRST LATIN READER. With Notes adapted to the Shorter Latin Primer and Vocabulary.
Página 31 - Let it be allowed, though virtue or moral rectitude does indeed consist in affection to and pursuit of what is right and good, as such; yet, that when we sit down in a cool hour, we can neither justify to ourselves this or any other pursuit, till we are convinced that it will be for our happiness, or, at least, not contrary to it.
Página 115 - The idea of a supreme Being, infinite in power, goodness, and wisdom, whose workmanship we are, and on whom we depend; and the idea of ourselves, as understanding, rational creatures, being such as are clear in us, would, I suppose, if duly considered and pursued, afford such foundations of our duty and rules of action...
Página 141 - AFFECTIONS, Instincts, Principles, and Powers, Impulse and Reason, Freedom and Control — So men, unravelling God's harmonious whole, Rend in a thousand shreds this life of ours. Vain labour ! Deep and broad, where none may see, Spring the foundations of that shadowy throne Where man's one nature, queen-like, sits alone, Centred in a majestic unity...
Página 59 - After Nature had become a household word in the mouths of the Romans, the belief gradually prevailed among the Roman lawyers that the old Jus Gentium was in fact the lost code of Nature...
Página 200 - And, in the same manner, we either approve or disapprove of our own conduct, according as we feel that, when we place ourselves in the situation of another man, and view it, as it were, with his eyes and from his station, we either can or cannot entirely enter into and sympathize with the sentiments and motives which influenced it.
Página 77 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.