The Elements of EthicsJohn Murray, 1897 - 263 páginas |
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already analysis answer Aristotle Book called casuistry cause chapter claim conception conduct and character conscience consequences determined difficulty discussion distinction doctrine duty efficient causes element empirical environment evolution evolutionary ethics explained external fact foll further Green's habit hand happiness Hedonism Hedonistic Hegel Hence idea implied individual instance Intuitionalism involves J. S. Mill James Martineau Jesuits latter Libertarianism means merely mind moral judgment moral law moral order moral quality motive nation nature neople obedience object of desire object of moral organically related pain paradox of Hedonism particular phenomena philosophy Plato political principle progress Proleg Psychology question realisation reason recognised reference reflection reflex action science of ethics scientific seen sense social society stage standard of moral teleological Thomas Hobbes thought tion true truth uncon universal Utilitarianism virtue volition voluntary action vulgar fraction whole words
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Página 59 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 59 - Subordinate contracts, for objects of mere occasional interest, may be dissolved at pleasure; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Página 37 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 47 - Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
Página 80 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets : wherefore ye witness to yourselves that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.
Página 55 - I conceive it to be the business of moral science to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognised as laws of conduct; and are to be conformed to, irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery' Perhaps an analogy will most clearly show my meaning.
Página 47 - So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
Página 55 - That all particular appetites and passions are towards external things themselves, distinct from the pleasure arising from them, is manifested from hence, that there could not be this pleasure, were it not for that prior suitableness between the object and the passion...
Página 37 - ... the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons.
Página 9 - God does and does not will, the old question arises whether something is good simply because God wills it or does God will it because it is good?