Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural LawLongmans, Green, and Company, 1919 - 379 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
according action animal Aristotle authority body bound called capital punishment charity circumstances civil power commutative justice concupiscible conscience consequences contemplation contract corp creature danger death delight Deontology desire distributive justice Divine duty end in view Eternal Law Ethics evil fortitude golden mean habit hand Hedonism heterocentric Hobbes honour human acts human nature ignorance individual intellectual intellectual virtue judgment kill labour last end law of nature live man's marriage matter ment mind modern moral virtue Natural Law necessary ness never object obligation offended passion perfect happiness person philosophy Plato pleasure polity polyandry polygamy precept principle Probabilism proper prudence punishment question rational Readings.-St reason Rousseau ruler SECTION II.-Of self-defence sense sensitive appetite social Social Contract society soul sovereign speak synderesis Temperance thing Thomas says Thos tion truth usury Utilitarianism vengeance voluntary worship wrong
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Página 298 - To this war of every man, against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no injustice.
Página 298 - Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war, as is of every man against every man.
Página 299 - They are qualities that relate to men in society, not in solitude. It is consequent also to the same condition that there be no propriety, no dominion, no ' mine ' and ' thine ' distinct, but only that to be every man's that he can get, and for so long as he can keep it.
Página 298 - Again, men have no pleasure (but on the contrary a great deal of grief) in keeping company where there is no power able to overawe them all.
Página 185 - ... the motive has nothing to do with the morality of the action, though much with the worth of the agent.
Página 302 - ... and receiving from this act its unity, its common identity, its life and its will.
Página 13 - And now, as he looked and saw the whole Hellespont covered with the vessels of his fleet, and all the shore and every plain about Abydos as full as possible of men, Xerxes congratulated himself on his good fortune; but after a little while he wept.
Página 304 - This done, the multitude so united in one person, is called a COMMONWEALTH, in Latin CIVITAS. This is the generation of that great LEVIATHAN, or rather, to speak more reverently, of that mortal god, to which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence.
Página 55 - I will omit much usual declamation on the dignity and capacity of our nature ; the superiority of the soul to the body, of the rational to the animal part of our constitution ; upon the worthiness, refinement, and delicacy of some satisfactions, or the meanness, grossness, and sensuality of others ; because I hold that pleasures differ in nothing but in continuance and intensity...
Página 298 - In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty,...