A Short History of Ethics, Greek and ModernMacmillan, 1911 - 303 من الصفحات |
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Absolute abstract abstract law activity agent altruism apprehended arise Aristotle asserts attainable Butler Categorical Imperative conception Conscience consciousness consists contradiction criticism Cudworth Cynics Cyrenaics desire determined distinction doctrine duty effects emotions Epicurean Epicurus essential Ethical Egoism Ethics evil evolution Exclusive Egoism existence experience express external feeling follows freedom Greek happiness harmony Hedonism hedonistic Hegel highest Hobbes human nature Hume idea identified individual interests intuitional Intuitionism intuitionists J. S. Mill judgment Justice Kant Kant's knowledge Laws of Nature means mental merely Mind moral obligation moral sense moral virtues motive naturalistic object opposition pain particular partly perfect persons philosophy physical Plato Political Absolutism possess practical principle Protagoras psychological Psychological Hedonism Rational Idealism realised Reason recognised regarded satisfaction Science Self-love Shaftesbury Sidgwick social society Socrates soul Spencer Spinoza Stoicism Stoics sympathy Temperance theory things tion true truth ultimate unity universal Utilitarianism Well-being worth
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الصفحة 135 - I authorize and give up my right of governing myself, to this man or to this assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up thy right to him and authorize all his actions in like manner.
الصفحة 131 - The value, or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power : and therefore is not absolute ; but a thing dependent on the need and judgment of another.
الصفحة 135 - For the laws of nature, as justice, equity, modesty, mercy, and, in sum, doing to others, as we would be done to, of themselves, without the terror of some power, to cause them to be observed, are contrary to our natural passions, that carry us to partiality, pride, revenge, and the like.
الصفحة 135 - ... confer all their power and strength upon one man, or upon one assembly of men, that may reduce all their wills by plurality of voices unto one will...
الصفحة 133 - ... 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, brutish, and short.
الصفحة 135 - 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.
الصفحة 133 - 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.
الصفحة 235 - By the principle* of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question : or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
الصفحة 132 - 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.
الصفحة 271 - Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.