Old-fashioned Ethics and Common-sense Metaphysics: With Some of Their ApplicationsMacmillan and Company, 1873 - 298 עמודים |
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עמוד 17
... feel it incumbent on you to submit quietly to be drowned in order that the residuum of happiness might be greater than if either you all three went to the bottom , or than if you alone were saved . Would you not , far from recognising ...
... feel it incumbent on you to submit quietly to be drowned in order that the residuum of happiness might be greater than if either you all three went to the bottom , or than if you alone were saved . Would you not , far from recognising ...
עמוד 20
... feel my way through it . Yes , I would give my soul for yours . I wish I could . ' Now we must on no account permit admiration of Miss Scudder's transcendent " generosity in desiring to make this exchange blind us to the fatal effect on ...
... feel my way through it . Yes , I would give my soul for yours . I wish I could . ' Now we must on no account permit admiration of Miss Scudder's transcendent " generosity in desiring to make this exchange blind us to the fatal effect on ...
עמוד 28
... feel bound to attend to the consequences not of individual actions , but of classes of actions . The cleverest self - deceiver can scarcely bring himself to believe that , because it might suit his personal convenience to kill or steal ...
... feel bound to attend to the consequences not of individual actions , but of classes of actions . The cleverest self - deceiver can scarcely bring himself to believe that , because it might suit his personal convenience to kill or steal ...
עמוד 41
... of a belief in ' Natural Rights , ' I feel that I must have incurred in philosophic quarters a sort of civil contempt , which I am very desirous of removing , and which will , I trust , be somewhat diminished on ANTI UTILITARIANISM . 41.
... of a belief in ' Natural Rights , ' I feel that I must have incurred in philosophic quarters a sort of civil contempt , which I am very desirous of removing , and which will , I trust , be somewhat diminished on ANTI UTILITARIANISM . 41.
עמוד 57
... feel warranted in here replying that by no theory of justice , intuitive or other , can the passive spectator of an injustice to which he is no party be bound to assist in repairing the injustice , simply because he has the means . A ...
... feel warranted in here replying that by no theory of justice , intuitive or other , can the passive spectator of an injustice to which he is no party be bound to assist in repairing the injustice , simply because he has the means . A ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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