Old-fashioned Ethics and Common-sense Metaphysics: With Some of Their ApplicationsMacmillan and Company, 1873 - 298 עמודים |
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עמוד 22
... principles , by consenting so to suffer , the just becomes unjust , the innocent renders himself guilty . But can there be a better proof that utilitarian principles are unsound than that this should be a legitimate deduction from them ...
... principles , by consenting so to suffer , the just becomes unjust , the innocent renders himself guilty . But can there be a better proof that utilitarian principles are unsound than that this should be a legitimate deduction from them ...
עמוד 29
... principles evidently being that , if the decimation of mankind would conduce to the greater happiness of the residue , adding more to the happiness of the nine - tenths whom it spared than it took from the tenth whom it destroyed , the ...
... principles evidently being that , if the decimation of mankind would conduce to the greater happiness of the residue , adding more to the happiness of the nine - tenths whom it spared than it took from the tenth whom it destroyed , the ...
עמוד 33
... principles destroys the landmarks between right and wrong , between virtue and vice , causing each to take continually the place of its oppo- site . We have now to see how another of its principles obliterates all distinctions between ...
... principles destroys the landmarks between right and wrong , between virtue and vice , causing each to take continually the place of its oppo- site . We have now to see how another of its principles obliterates all distinctions between ...
עמוד 35
... principle which obliges each so to shape his conduct and relations , his claims and his achieve- ments , that they harmonise with the highest good of all.'1 To which doctrine of Mr. Morley's , if other Utilitarians do not subscribe , it ...
... principle which obliges each so to shape his conduct and relations , his claims and his achieve- ments , that they harmonise with the highest good of all.'1 To which doctrine of Mr. Morley's , if other Utilitarians do not subscribe , it ...
עמוד 48
... principle ' on which their whole system rests . Commencing with the undeniable postulate that happiness is the sole object of existence , and per- ceiving that individual happiness alone would be a very misleading object , they proceed ...
... principle ' on which their whole system rests . Commencing with the undeniable postulate that happiness is the sole object of existence , and per- ceiving that individual happiness alone would be a very misleading object , they proceed ...
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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
קטעים בולטים
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