Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them DevelopedChapman, 1851 - 476 páginas |
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... consider it , if anything , rather an indication of truth than of error . It is preposterous to look for consistency be- tween absolute moral truth , and the defective characters and usages of our existing state ! As already said ...
... consider it , if anything , rather an indication of truth than of error . It is preposterous to look for consistency be- tween absolute moral truth , and the defective characters and usages of our existing state ! As already said ...
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... consider . It is enough for us to know that con- stancy is the law , and we have no alternative but to assume that law to be the best possible one . § 2 . As with the physical , so with the ethical . A belief , as yet fitful and partial ...
... consider . It is enough for us to know that con- stancy is the law , and we have no alternative but to assume that law to be the best possible one . § 2 . As with the physical , so with the ethical . A belief , as yet fitful and partial ...
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... consider the probable effects of a wrong precedent . As Paley truly says , " the bad consequences of actions are twofold , particular and general . " And admitting even that a particular good has been secured , a far greater general ...
... consider the probable effects of a wrong precedent . As Paley truly says , " the bad consequences of actions are twofold , particular and general . " And admitting even that a particular good has been secured , a far greater general ...
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... consider the question closely , no other ar- rangement of things can be imagined . For we must adopt one of three propositions . We must either affirm that the human being is wholly unaltered by the influences that are brought to bear ...
... consider the question closely , no other ar- rangement of things can be imagined . For we must adopt one of three propositions . We must either affirm that the human being is wholly unaltered by the influences that are brought to bear ...
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... consider it as an admitted truth . It is one thing , however , to hold that greatest happiness is the creative purpose , and a quite different thing to hold that greatest happiness should be the immediate aim of man . It has been the ...
... consider it as an admitted truth . It is one thing , however , to hold that greatest happiness is the creative purpose , and a quite different thing to hold that greatest happiness should be the immediate aim of man . It has been the ...
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