A Study of Ethical PrinciplesScribner's Sons, 1898 - 470 páginas |
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... mind but mani- fests itself in the life of conduct . Nor can the intel- lectual and emotional life be separated from the volitional or moral . If , indeed , with Spencer , we extend the term ' conduct ' so as to cover merely mechanical ...
... mind but mani- fests itself in the life of conduct . Nor can the intel- lectual and emotional life be separated from the volitional or moral . If , indeed , with Spencer , we extend the term ' conduct ' so as to cover merely mechanical ...
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... mind afresh about each particular action , or consider it on its own merits ; he refers it to its place in the general scheme or plan of life which he has adopted at some time in the past . But such a scheme or plan of life is already ...
... mind afresh about each particular action , or consider it on its own merits ; he refers it to its place in the general scheme or plan of life which he has adopted at some time in the past . But such a scheme or plan of life is already ...
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... mind ( μετάνοια ) . Moral insight is the necessary condition of moral life , and the philosophy which deepens such insight is at once theoretical and practical , in its interest and in its value . By fixing our attention upon the ideal ...
... mind ( μετάνοια ) . Moral insight is the necessary condition of moral life , and the philosophy which deepens such insight is at once theoretical and practical , in its interest and in its value . By fixing our attention upon the ideal ...
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... mind , " it is the ripe fruit of the good life . 5. Ancient and modern conceptions of the moral ideal compared : ( a ) Duty and the chief good.- Modern moralists , it is true , prefer to raise the question in another form , and to ask ...
... mind , " it is the ripe fruit of the good life . 5. Ancient and modern conceptions of the moral ideal compared : ( a ) Duty and the chief good.- Modern moralists , it is true , prefer to raise the question in another form , and to ask ...
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... mind . But , as Aristotle and Kant have both insisted , man must be his own end ; he cannot subordinate him- self as a means to any further end . The moral ideal is an ideal of character . In ancient philosophy we can trace a gradual ...
... mind . But , as Aristotle and Kant have both insisted , man must be his own end ; he cannot subordinate him- self as a means to any further end . The moral ideal is an ideal of character . In ancient philosophy we can trace a gradual ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
absolute action activity actual æsthetic altruism ancient animal Aristotle attainment become benevolence called character choice Christianity citizen claim common conception conduct constitute Cyrenaic Cyrenaicism distinction divine dualism duty egoism element Epicurean essential ethical theory evil evolution experience external F. H. Bradley fact feeling freedom Greek happiness Hedonism hedonistic higher human idea implies impulse individual insight intellectual interests interpretation Intuitionism J. S. Mill justice Kant less live logical man's means merely metaphysical modern moral ideal moral law moral progress moralists nature ness never normative science object organisation pain perfect personality philosophy Plato pleasure political possible principle problem prudence psychological question rational realisation reality reason recognise reflection regard relation scientific self-realisation sense sensibility sentient Sidgwick social society Socrates soul sphere spirit Stoicism Stoics supreme T. H. Green tendency things thought tion true truth ultimate unity universal Utilitarianism vidual virtue
Passagens conhecidas
Página 228 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.
Página 157 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Página 403 - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
Página 224 - Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, Die eine will sich von der andern trennen; Die eine hält in derber Liebeslust Sich an die Welt mit klammernden Organen; Die andre hebt gewaltsam sich vom Dust Zu den Gefilden hoher Ahnen.
Página 95 - But there is no known Epicurean theory of life which does not assign to the pleasures of the intellect, of the feelings and imagination, and of the moral sentiments, a much higher value as pleasures than to those of mere sensation.
Página 93 - I must again repeat what the assailants of utilitarianism seldom have the justice to acknowledge, that the happiness which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct is not the agent's own happiness but that of all concerned. As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.