Natural and Social MoralsAdam and Charles Black, 1909 - 314 oldal |
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A. C. Haddon abstract action active adaptation altruism amongst animals Aristotle become belief benevolence casuistry causation causes character chief civilisation co-operation conceived conception conduct connexion conscience customs depends desire disposition divine doctrine duty effective sympathy Ethics evil exist fact favourable feelings ground happiness Hedonism Henry Sidgwick honour human nature ideal ideas implies impulses individual industry influence instinctive interest J. G. Frazer J. S. Mill Jus Naturale justice Kant L. T. Hobhouse living mankind marriage maxims means ment merely mind monogamy Moral Science motive natural selection necessary observance one's organisation pain Pantheism passion perhaps Philosophy physical Plato pleasure political practical present principles punishment race realisation reason recognised reflection regard relation religion religious seems sense sentiments social society sometimes sort Spencer Spinoza suppose teleology tendency theory things tion tribal tribe true truth virtue whilst
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5. oldal - In every system of morality which I have hitherto met with, I have always remarked that the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary way of reasoning, and establishes the being of a God, or makes observations concerning human affairs ; when of a sudden I am surprised to find that instead of the usual copulations of propositions is and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought or an ought not. This change is imperceptible, but is, however of the last consequence....
96. oldal - I pointed out that whatever action any of us judges to be right for himself, he implicitly judges to be right for all similar persons in similar circumstances.
96. oldal - I obtain the selfevident principle that the good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view (if I may say so) of the universe, than the good of any other...
233. oldal - most valuable of instruments in the maturity of jurisprudence, is the most dangerous of snares in its infancy. Prohibitions and ordinances, originally confined, for good reasons, to a single description of acts, are made to apply to all acts of the same class, because a man menaced with the anger of the gods for doing one thing, feels a natural terror in doing any other thing which is remotely like it.
196. oldal - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love and bear; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great, and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory!
41. oldal - ... the test of quality, and the rule for measuring it against quantity, being the preference felt by those who in their opportunities of experience, to which must be added their habits of self-consciousness and self-observation, are best furnished with the means of comparison.
7. oldal - How far this truth or falshood may be the source of morals, 'twill now be proper to consider. It has been observ'd, that reason, in a strict and philosophical sense, can have an influence on our conduct only after two ways: Either when it excites a passion by informing us of the existence of something which is a proper object of it; or when it discovers the connexion of causes and effects, so as to afford us means of exerting any passion.
245. oldal - God or melior natura ; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain.
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57. oldal - Besides, the communicating of ideas marked by words is not the chief and only end of language, as is commonly supposed. There are other ends, as the raising of some passion, the exciting to or deterring from an action, the putting the mind in some particular disposition...