Social Statics, Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified: And the First of Them DevelopedWilliams and Norgate, 1868 - 523 páginas |
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... duty . Neverthe- less should he find them logically derived from a funda- mental truth , he will have no alternative but to adopt them as rules of conduct , which ought to be followed with out exception . If there be any weight in the ...
... duty . Neverthe- less should he find them logically derived from a funda- mental truth , he will have no alternative but to adopt them as rules of conduct , which ought to be followed with out exception . If there be any weight in the ...
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... duty is comprehended in the endeavour to live up to these necessities . If we find pleasure in doing this , it is well ; if not , our aim must be to acquire that pleasure . Greatest happiness is obtained only when conformity to them is ...
... duty is comprehended in the endeavour to live up to these necessities . If we find pleasure in doing this , it is well ; if not , our aim must be to acquire that pleasure . Greatest happiness is obtained only when conformity to them is ...
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... duty to exercise his faculties ; for duty means fulfilment of the Divine will . That it is man's duty to exercise his faculties is further proved by the fact , that what we call punishment attaches to the neglect of that exercise . Not ...
... duty to exercise his faculties ; for duty means fulfilment of the Divine will . That it is man's duty to exercise his faculties is further proved by the fact , that what we call punishment attaches to the neglect of that exercise . Not ...
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... duty . But the fulfilment of this duty necessarily presupposes freedom of action . Man cannot exercise his faculties without certain scope . He must have liberty to go and to come , to see , to feel , to speak , to work ; to get food ...
... duty . But the fulfilment of this duty necessarily presupposes freedom of action . Man cannot exercise his faculties without certain scope . He must have liberty to go and to come , to see , to feel , to speak , to work ; to get food ...
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... duty can only thus be accom- plished , then does the supreme authority of our first law- the liberty of each limited alone by the like liberty of all -become still more manifest , seeing that that right to exercise the faculties which ...
... duty can only thus be accom- plished , then does the supreme authority of our first law- the liberty of each limited alone by the like liberty of all -become still more manifest , seeing that that right to exercise the faculties which ...
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