The Principles of Ethics, Volumen1

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D. Appleton, 1902
 

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Página 220 - is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree (with the proper allowance made for kind), is counted for exactly as much as another's. Those conditions being supplied, Bentham's dictum,
Página v - the establishment of rules of conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative. . . . Those who reject the current creed appear to assume that the controlling agency furnished by it may safely be thrown aside
Página 371 - It is a received law among all the Arabs, that whoever sheds the blood of a man, owes blood on that account to the family of the slain person. . . The lineal descendants of all those who were entitled to revenge at the moment of the man-slaughter, inherit this right from their parents.
Página 123 - as the space-intuition responds to the exact demonstrations of Geometry, and has its rough conclusions interpreted and verified by them; so will moral intuitions respond to the demonstrations of Moral Science, and will have their rough conclusions interpreted and verified by them." To this, in passing, I will add only that the
Página 416 - passing the vacant place of the prince, his countenance appeared to change, and his legs to bend under him, and his words came as if he hardly had breath to utter them." After recognizing in China occasional dissent, as of Mencius, who in one place suggests rebellion
Página 364 - destroy them, throw them down, ye two Bulls, the people that grow in darkness. Hew down the madmen, suffocate them, kill them, hurl them away, and slay the voracious. Indra and Soma, up together against the cursing demon 1 May he burn and hiss like an oblation in the fire
Página 272 - relationship he stands to other straight men; shows how a community of straight men is constituted. Any deviation from strict rectitude he is obliged wholly to ignore. It cannot be admitted into his premises without vitiating all his conclusions. A problem in which a
Página 186 - maintenance of life, there is no kind of activity which will not become a source of pleasure if continued; and that therefore pleasure will eventually accompany every mode of action demanded by social conditions. This corollary I here emphasize because it will presently play an important part in the argument.
Página 285 - far may it rightly be carried ? Up to what point is the citizen bound to recognize the collective decisions of other citizens, and beyond what point may he properly refuse to obey them. These relations, private and public, considered as maintained under ideal conditions, having been formulated, there come to be dealt with the analogous relations
Página 396 - Iroquois—" Kindness to the orphan, hospitality to all, and a common brotherhood " were enjoined. Chippewas—before the white man came, there was more "charity practised towards one another; and the widow and orphan were never allowed to live in poverty and want." Araucanians—No indigent person is to be found . . . the "most incapable of subsisting

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