Old-fashioned Ethics and Common-sense Metaphysics: With Some of Their ApplicationsMacmillan and Company, 1873 - 298 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 63
עמוד 3
... causes more pleasure than pain to those affected by it , may yet belong to a class of actions which , in the generality of cases , causes more pain than pleasure , and may thus involve a violation of a moral rule , and , conse- quently ...
... causes more pleasure than pain to those affected by it , may yet belong to a class of actions which , in the generality of cases , causes more pain than pleasure , and may thus involve a violation of a moral rule , and , conse- quently ...
עמוד 4
... cause , possess most value - that those which are most precious are those most to be prized . But whoever allows thus much will have no alternative but to concede a great deal more . The most precious of pleasures is that which arises ...
... cause , possess most value - that those which are most precious are those most to be prized . But whoever allows thus much will have no alternative but to concede a great deal more . The most precious of pleasures is that which arises ...
עמוד 9
... - sacrifice , must always sober down the gratification by which virtue is rewarded , and make it appear tame beside the delirium of gladness caused by many things with which virtue has nothing to do . ANTI - UTILITARIANISM . 9.
... - sacrifice , must always sober down the gratification by which virtue is rewarded , and make it appear tame beside the delirium of gladness caused by many things with which virtue has nothing to do . ANTI - UTILITARIANISM . 9.
עמוד 19
... have been not a few enthusiasts in whom a self - concentrating creed begat the very quintessence of self - devotion . As a gallant soldier renounces life and " personal aims in the cause of his king and C 2 ANTI - UTILITARIANISM . 19.
... have been not a few enthusiasts in whom a self - concentrating creed begat the very quintessence of self - devotion . As a gallant soldier renounces life and " personal aims in the cause of his king and C 2 ANTI - UTILITARIANISM . 19.
עמוד 20
With Some of Their Applications William Thomas Thornton. " personal aims in the cause of his king and country , and holds himself ready to be drafted for a forlorn hope , to be shot down , or help to make a bridge of his mangled body ...
With Some of Their Applications William Thomas Thornton. " personal aims in the cause of his king and country , and holds himself ready to be drafted for a forlorn hope , to be shot down , or help to make a bridge of his mangled body ...
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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