A Short Study of Ethics, Volume 20Macmillan, 1912 - 278 pagine |
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absolute abstract action activity agent altruism answer argument arises attainment becomes benevolence Bishop Butler called categorical imperative cause chap CHAPTER character circumstances common conceived conception concrete act conflict conscience consciousness correlative corresponding cosmological argument cosmos of experience determination difficulty doctrine duty egoism element end of conduct essential ethical principle ethical theory evil Evolution Evolutionary Ethics existence express fact feeling freedom habit Hedonism Hedonist Hegel human idea ideal identifies impossible individual J. S. Mill Kant Kant's knowledge logical man's means merely mind moral law motive multitude nature necessary necessity object obligation ontological argument organic unity organism perfect philosophy pleasure position possible presupposes Professor Green question realisation reason recognised regarded relation religious rule satisfaction seems self-conscious subject self-determination sense simply society spirit standard teleological argument term things thought tion transcendent true truth unity universal Utilitarianism virtue volition welfare whole words
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Pagina 241 - I must again repeat, what the assailants of utilitarianism seldom have the justice to acknowledge, that the happiness which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct, is not the agent's own happiness, but that of all concerned. As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.
Pagina 209 - ... could I see them on the street Lie as they fell? Would they be ears of wheat Sown once for food but trodden into clay? Or golden coins squandered and still to pay? Or drops of blood dabbling the guilty feet? Or such spilt water as in dreams must cheat The undying throats of Hell, athirst alway?
Pagina 221 - But among these and other excellent arguments for the immortality of the soul, there is one drawn from the perpetual progress of the soul to its perfection, without a possibility of ever arriving...
Pagina 106 - whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as a means only.
Pagina 44 - ... in the growth of our experience, in the process of our learning to know the world, an animal organism, which has its history in time, gradually becomes the vehicle of an eternally complete consciousness.
Pagina 262 - A good will is good not because of what it performs or effects, not by its aptness for the attainment of some proposed end, but simply by virtue of the volition, that is, it is good in itself...
Pagina 229 - ... there is scarce that principle of morality to be named, or rule of virtue to be thought on, (those only exceptcd that are absolutely necessary to hold society together, which commonly, too, are neglected betwixt distinct societies,) which is not, somewhere or other, slighted and condemned...
Pagina 259 - Psychology, § 124, it was shown that necessarily, throughout the animate world at large, "pains are the correlatives of actions injurious to the organism, while pleasures are the correlatives of actions conducive to its welfare ;" since " it is an inevitable deduction from the hypothesis of Evolution, that races of sentient creatures could have come into existence under no other conditions.
Pagina 259 - ... if the states of consciousness which a creature endeavours to maintain are the correlatives of injurious actions, and if the states of consciousness which it endeavours to expel are the correlatives of beneficial actions, it must quickly disappear through persistence in the injurious and avoidance of the beneficial.
Pagina 221 - How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass...