 | 1871 - 630 páginas
...statement of his own views, Mr. Darwin contradicts himself. In p. 88 he defines ' a moral being to be one ' who is capable of comparing his past and future...and of approving or disapproving of them. We have -c no reason to suppose that any of the tower animals have this v capacity ; therefore when a monkey... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 432 páginas
...motives, we rank all actions of a certain class as moral, when they are performed by a moral being. A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his...lower animals have this capacity ; therefore when a monkey faces danger to rescue its comrade, or takes charge of an orphan-monkey, we do not call its... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 468 páginas
...motives, we rank all actions of a certain class as moral, when they are performed by a moral being. A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his...reason to suppose that any of the lower animals have 21 I have given one such case, namely of three Patagonian Indians who preferred being shot, one after... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 554 páginas
...motives, we rank all actions of a certain class as moral, when they are performed by a moral being. A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his...and of approving or disapproving of them. We have DO reason to suppose that any of the lower animals have 21 I have given one such case, namely of three... | |
 | Conway Morel (pseud. [i.e. Charles Zachary Macaulay.]) - 1871 - 358 páginas
...ourselves], we rank all actions of a certain class as moral when they are performed by a moral being. A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his...actions or motives, and of approving or disapproving them. We have no reason to suppose that any of the lower animals have this capacity : therefore, when... | |
 | Conway Morel (pseud. [i.e. Charles Zachary Macaulay.]) - 1871 - 340 páginas
...ourselves], we rank all actions of a certain class as moral when they are performed by a moral being. A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his...actions or motives, and of approving or disapproving them. We have no reason to suppose that any of the lower animals have this capacity : therefore, when... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 470 páginas
...highly beneficial to the species, they have in all probability been acquired through natural selection. A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past and future actions and motives — of approving of some and disapproving of others ; and the fact that man is the one... | |
 | James McCosh - 1871 - 410 páginas
...subjects, as he is in questions of natural history. The following is his summary of his ethical theory : " A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past and future actions and motives, — of approving of some and disapproving of others ; and the fact that man is the one... | |
 | John R. Leifchild - 1872 - 576 páginas
...beneficial to the species, they have in all probability been acquired through Natural Selection. " A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past, future actions and motives, — of approving of some and disapproving of others ; and the fact that... | |
 | William Fraser - 1873 - 406 páginas
...motives, we rank all actions of a certain class as moral, when they are performed by a moral being. A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his...and future actions or motives, and of approving or dis1 "Egypt's Place in Universal History," iv., p. 54. approving of them. We have no reason to suppose... | |
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A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past and future actions or motives, and of approving or disapproving of them. 
