Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them DevelopedChapman, 1851 - 476 páginas |
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... instinct generating in us an approval of certain actions we call good , and a repugnance to certain others we call bad . But they were not right in assuming such instinct to be capable of intuitively solving every ethical problem ...
... instinct generating in us an approval of certain actions we call good , and a repugnance to certain others we call bad . But they were not right in assuming such instinct to be capable of intuitively solving every ethical problem ...
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... instinct of right bears to a moral sys- tem ; and that as it is the office of the geometric sense to ori- ginate a geometric axiom , from which reason may deduce a scientific geometry , so it is the office of the moral sense to ...
... instinct of right bears to a moral sys- tem ; and that as it is the office of the geometric sense to ori- ginate a geometric axiom , from which reason may deduce a scientific geometry , so it is the office of the moral sense to ...
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... instincts , in morals , in opinions , in tastes , in rationality , in everything . Even a stroll through the nearest museum would show that some law of modification was at work . Mark the grotesque frescos of the Egyptians , or the ...
... instincts , in morals , in opinions , in tastes , in rationality , in everything . Even a stroll through the nearest museum would show that some law of modification was at work . Mark the grotesque frescos of the Egyptians , or the ...
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... instincts to which roguery is repugnant ; and allowing free play to these , he drops the acquaintanceship of this unworthy one . Now , though in doing so he gives pain , it does not follow that he transgresses the law . The evil must be ...
... instincts to which roguery is repugnant ; and allowing free play to these , he drops the acquaintanceship of this unworthy one . Now , though in doing so he gives pain , it does not follow that he transgresses the law . The evil must be ...
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... instinct of personal rights - a feeling that leads him to claim as great a share of natural privilege as is claimed by others - a feeling that leads him to repel anything like an encroachment upon what he thinks his sphere of original ...
... instinct of personal rights - a feeling that leads him to claim as great a share of natural privilege as is claimed by others - a feeling that leads him to repel anything like an encroachment upon what he thinks his sphere of original ...
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