A Study of Ethical PrinciplesScribner's Sons, 1898 - 470 páginas |
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Página 95
... social standpoint alone can we estimate aright the claims either of our own happiness or of the happiness of others . Mill's statement is the most ade- quate on this important point . " The utilitarian standard , " he says , is " not ...
... social standpoint alone can we estimate aright the claims either of our own happiness or of the happiness of others . Mill's statement is the most ade- quate on this important point . " The utilitarian standard , " he says , is " not ...
Página 98
... social feelings of mankind ; the desire to be in unity with our fellow creatures , which is already a powerful principle in human nature , and happily one of those which tend to become stronger , even with- out express inculcation from ...
... social feelings of mankind ; the desire to be in unity with our fellow creatures , which is already a powerful principle in human nature , and happily one of those which tend to become stronger , even with- out express inculcation from ...
Página 102
... social . These do not , however , severally or together , " constitute the moral control , but are only preparatory to it - are controls within which the moral control evolves . " " The restraints properly distinguished as moral are ...
... social . These do not , however , severally or together , " constitute the moral control , but are only preparatory to it - are controls within which the moral control evolves . " " The restraints properly distinguished as moral are ...
Página 103
... social conditions of his life , " with complete adaptation to the social state , that element in the moral consciousness which is expressed by the word obligation will disappear . The higher actions required for the harmonious carrying ...
... social conditions of his life , " with complete adaptation to the social state , that element in the moral consciousness which is expressed by the word obligation will disappear . The higher actions required for the harmonious carrying ...
Página 104
... social kind . may be expected to attain a level at which it will be like parental altruism in spontaneity — a level such that ministration to others ' happiness will become a daily need . " This consummation will be brought about by the ...
... social kind . may be expected to attain a level at which it will be like parental altruism in spontaneity — a level such that ministration to others ' happiness will become a daily need . " This consummation will be brought about by the ...
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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.