The Elements of Ethics: An Introduction to Moral PhilosophyC. Scribner's sons, 1892 - 239 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
action already answer Aristotle Book called categorical imperative chapter character circumstances conceived conception conduct conscience consciousness criticism Cyrenaics defined Dewey difficulty distinction doctrine duty egoistic element empirical environment Epicureans evolution evolutionary ethics explain external fact feeling foll further habits hand happiness Hedonism Hedonistic Hence higher human idea ideal illustration implied important individual instincts interpretation INTUITIONALISM involve J. S. Mill latter Leslie Stephen means ment merely metaphysics moral judgment moral law moral order motive nation natural selection nature object of desire organically related organisation pain particular philosophy Plato pleasure theory political practical progress Proleg psychological Hedonism question realisation reason recognised reference relative satisfaction science of ethics seen sense Similarly social society Socratic Schools stage standard of moral Stoic Stoicism summum bonum teleological thought tion true truth universal Utilitarianism virtue whole words
Pasajes populares
Página 165 - It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are 135 living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 165 - Subordinate contracts, for objects of mere occasional interest, may be dissolved at pleasure; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Página 131 - I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery.
Página 101 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 119 - ... so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
Página 234 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets : wherefore ye witness to yourselves that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.
Página 136 - That all particular appetites and passions are towards external things themselves, distinct from the pleasure arising from them, is manifested from hence, that there could not be this pleasure, were it not for that prior suitableness between the object and the passion...
Página 217 - Out of what is in itself an undistinguishable, swarming continuum, devoid of distinction or emphasis, our senses make for us, by attending to this motion and ignoring that, a world full of contrasts, of sharp accents, of abrupt changes, of picturesque light and shade.
Página 104 - ... the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons.
Página 141 - The attempt to establish an absolute coincidence between virtue and happiness is in ethics what the attempting to square the circle or to discover perpetual motion is in geometry and mechanics.