The Data of EthicsD. Appleton, 1879 - 288 من الصفحات |
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accompanying achieved actions activities acts to ends adjustments of acts aggregate altruistic pleasure arises Aristotle BALFOUR STEWART becomes belief benefit bodily bring caused co-operation complete conceived conception connexions consciousness consequences considered constituted creatures definite degree effects efforts egoistic satisfactions emotions entailed ethical evils evolution of conduct evolved existence feelings fulfilment functions further GEORGE PARK FISHER gratification greater greatest happiness guidance habitually hedonism Hence Herbert Spencer higher human ideal ideas implied increase individual infer injurious justice kind labour larvæ less living means ment mental moral motions nature needs NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW observe offspring organism paradox of Hedonism physical pleasures and pains principle Principles of Psychology produce prompted pursuit recognize reflex actions relations relative remote requirements respect savage sensations sentiency shown social Social Statics society Suppose sympathy T. H. HUXLEY theory things thought tion truth ultimate utilitarianism welfare wrong yield
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الصفحة 19 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
الصفحة 224 - 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.
الصفحة 164 - Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
الصفحة vi - I am the more anxious to indicate in outline, if I cannot complete, this final work, because the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative.
الصفحة 52 - For where no covenant hath preceded, there hath no right been transferred, and every man has right to everything and consequently, no action can be unjust. But when a covenant is made, then to break it is unjust and the definition of injustice is no other than the not performance of covenant. And whatsoever is not unjust is just.
الصفحة 123 - I believe that the experiences of utility organized and consolidated through all past generations of the human race, have been producing corresponding nervous modifications, which, by continued transmission and accumulation, have become in us certain faculties of moral intuition — certain emotions responding to right and wrong conduct, which have no apparent basis in the individual experiences of utility.
الصفحة 222 - everybody is to count for one and nobody for more than one...
الصفحة 127 - This remark implies the tacit conclusion, which will be to most very startling, that the sense of duty or moral obligation is transitory, and will diminish as fast as moralization increases.
الصفحة 123 - Just in the same way that I believe the intuition of space, possessed by any living individual, to have arisen from organized and consolidated experiences of all antecedent individuals who bequeathed to him their...
الصفحة 52 - Therefore before the names of just, and unjust can have place, there must be some coercive power, to compel men equally to the performance of their covenants, by the terror of some punishment, greater than the benefit \J they expect by -the breach of their covenant...