Old-fashioned Ethics and Common-sense Metaphysics: With Some of Their ApplicationsMacmillan and Company, 1873 - 298 עמודים |
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עמוד
... become forth- with presentable . Here it is . ' In these sick days , in a world such as ours , richer than usual in Truths grown obsolete , what can the fool think but that it is all a Den of Lies wherein whoso will not speak and act ...
... become forth- with presentable . Here it is . ' In these sick days , in a world such as ours , richer than usual in Truths grown obsolete , what can the fool think but that it is all a Den of Lies wherein whoso will not speak and act ...
עמוד 21
... become his , is he not clearly taking the worse course for the public by permitting the property to be wasted , instead of causing it to be husbanded ? Beyond all question , American Puritan , Chinese or English devotee to filial ...
... become his , is he not clearly taking the worse course for the public by permitting the property to be wasted , instead of causing it to be husbanded ? Beyond all question , American Puritan , Chinese or English devotee to filial ...
עמוד 26
... become culpable . With the most earnest desire to act righteously , we can only guess before- hand whether what we propose doing will turn out to be righteous , and can never be sure , therefore , that we are not going to do something ...
... become culpable . With the most earnest desire to act righteously , we can only guess before- hand whether what we propose doing will turn out to be righteous , and can never be sure , therefore , that we are not going to do something ...
עמוד 28
... become convinced of his rectitude of purpose , and even take credit for public - spirited zeal , in seeking to appro- priate to his own use part of another's wealth , which he may fairly suppose would be productive of more enjoy- ment ...
... become convinced of his rectitude of purpose , and even take credit for public - spirited zeal , in seeking to appro- priate to his own use part of another's wealth , which he may fairly suppose would be productive of more enjoy- ment ...
עמוד 31
... become beneficence ; and to kill , to steal , or to tell lies would be not wrong , but right . These are propositions which , without abjuring the prime articles of his creed , the most timid Utilitarian has no alternative but to ...
... become beneficence ; and to kill , to steal , or to tell lies would be not wrong , but right . These are propositions which , without abjuring the prime articles of his creed , the most timid Utilitarian has no alternative but to ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
according action admit animal antecedent appearance atheism Auguste Comte Baron D'Holbach become believe capable carbonic acid causes cells certainly circumstances conceived consciousness consequently constitute cornea course creature Darwin deny Descartes divine doctrine doubt duty effect equally existence experience external fact feel force free agency G. H. Lewes happiness human Hume Hume's idea imagine individuals infer intelligence invariable J. S. Mill justice least less likewise matter means melipona mental merely Mill mind mode moral motion natural selection nature never object observed operation organic original particular perceive perception person phenomena philosophy plainly pleasure Positivism possession possibly prayer principles produce Professor Huxley protoplasm qualities reason recognise retina rience sensations sense sequences simply single society species sufficient supposed theory things thou thought tion truth uncon universe unless Utilitarianism utterly vidual virtue volitions words wrong
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עמוד 84 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophesy With a near aim of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasur£d. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
עמוד 100 - ... of any profession, but a general elegance of manners ; whereas, in a military man, you can commonly distinguish the brand of a soldier, I'homme d'epee.
עמוד 264 - Philosophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories and Observatories with their results, in his single head, — is but a Pair of Spectacles behind which there is no Eye.
עמוד 95 - ... that suicide is merely the product of the general condition of society, and that the individual felon only carries into effect what is a necessary consequence of preceding circumstances.
עמוד 173 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
עמוד 85 - In a given state of society, a certain number of persons must put an end to their own life. This is the general law; and the special question as to who shall commit the crime depends, of course, upon special laws; which, however, in their total action, must obey the large social law to which they are all subordinate.
עמוד 104 - The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his Lord...
עמוד 90 - That when we perform an action, we perform it in consequence of some motive or motives ; that those motives are the results of some antecedents ; and that, therefore, if we are acquainted with the whole of the antecedents, and with all the laws of their movements, we could with unerring certainty predict the whole of their immediate results.
עמוד 262 - He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire...
עמוד 162 - ... hydrogen ? What justification is there, then, for the assumption of the existence in the living matter of a something which has no representative, or correlative, in the not living matter which gave rise to it ? What better philosophical status has "vitality