Old-fashioned Ethics and Common-sense Metaphysics: With Some of Their ApplicationsMacmillan and Company, 1873 - 298 עמודים |
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... mill of thine ' - hast thou an earthly mechanism for the Godlike itself , and for grinding out Virtue from the husks of Pleasure ? I tell thee , Nay ! Otherwise , not on Morality , but on Cookery , let us build our stronghold . There ...
... mill of thine ' - hast thou an earthly mechanism for the Godlike itself , and for grinding out Virtue from the husks of Pleasure ? I tell thee , Nay ! Otherwise , not on Morality , but on Cookery , let us build our stronghold . There ...
עמוד 8
... Mill aptly terms his sense of dignity , a sense possessed in some form or other by every human being , and one so essential to that self- satisfaction without which all pleasure would be tasteless , that nothing which conflicts with it ...
... Mill aptly terms his sense of dignity , a sense possessed in some form or other by every human being , and one so essential to that self- satisfaction without which all pleasure would be tasteless , that nothing which conflicts with it ...
עמוד 11
... Mill's splendid outburst that , rather than worship a fiend that could send him to hell for refusing , he would go to hell as he was bid , will doubtless occur to every reader . This , however , is all . In both the supposed cases , as ...
... Mill's splendid outburst that , rather than worship a fiend that could send him to hell for refusing , he would go to hell as he was bid , will doubtless occur to every reader . This , however , is all . In both the supposed cases , as ...
עמוד 13
... Mill himself , ever spoke more highly of it than I have just been doing . What censures , then , can I have in reserve to countervail such praises ? What grounds of quarrel can I have with a system of ethics which I have described as ...
... Mill himself , ever spoke more highly of it than I have just been doing . What censures , then , can I have in reserve to countervail such praises ? What grounds of quarrel can I have with a system of ethics which I have described as ...
עמוד 34
... Mill , Utilitarianism requires an agent to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator . ' Thus qualified , the prescribed subordination of one's own to the general good is no such extravagantly self - denying ...
... Mill , Utilitarianism requires an agent to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator . ' Thus qualified , the prescribed subordination of one's own to the general good is no such extravagantly self - denying ...
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according action admit animal antecedent appearance atheism Auguste Comte Baron D'Holbach become believe carbonic acid causes cells certainly circumstances conceived consciousness consequently constitute cornea course creature Darwin DAVID HUME deny Descartes divine doctrine doubt duty effect equally existence experience external fact feel force G. H. Lewes Galton 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 miracle mode moral motion natural selection nature necessarily never object operation organic original particular perceive perception person phenomena philosophy plainly pleasure Positivism possession possibly prayer present principles produce Professor Huxley protoplasm qualities reason recognise retina rience sensations sense sequences simply single society species sufficient supposed things thou thought tion truth uncon universe unless Utilitarianism utterly virtue volitions words wrong
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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 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 174 - 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 266 - 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 84 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd : The which observ'd, 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 intreasured.
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 264 - 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