Notes Expository and Critical on Certain British Theories of MoralsEdmonston & Douglas, 1868 - 156 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 39
... felicity - the in- dulgence of the love of the good of others ; and this without regard to the consequent and retrospective approbation of ourselves for having sought the good of others . Indeed , the fact that we retrospectively ...
... felicity - the in- dulgence of the love of the good of others ; and this without regard to the consequent and retrospective approbation of ourselves for having sought the good of others . Indeed , the fact that we retrospectively ...
الصفحة 41
... felicity ; that we cannot contemplate the object of our activity as happy , save in and through the subject as happy , and vice versa ; that , in short , the subjective end and the objective end concur and are inseparable , does not ...
... felicity ; that we cannot contemplate the object of our activity as happy , save in and through the subject as happy , and vice versa ; that , in short , the subjective end and the objective end concur and are inseparable , does not ...
الصفحة 45
... felicity , confronts him ; and he exercises much ingenuity in constructing mathematical canons for the assaying of personal virtue , by taking into account the various factors , Benevolence , the Moment of Good , and the Ability . It ...
... felicity , confronts him ; and he exercises much ingenuity in constructing mathematical canons for the assaying of personal virtue , by taking into account the various factors , Benevolence , the Moment of Good , and the Ability . It ...
الصفحة 49
... felicity of benevolent affections and activity in themselves . It is not necessary to our present purpose to follow the arguments by which Hutcheson endeavours to prove that Benevolence universally receives approba- tion , and the want ...
... felicity of benevolent affections and activity in themselves . It is not necessary to our present purpose to follow the arguments by which Hutcheson endeavours to prove that Benevolence universally receives approba- tion , and the want ...
الصفحة 78
... felicity by the hands of reason and of law . ' The degrading connotations which have gathered round the word Utility must be stripped off if we are to understand Bentham and his system , and the term must be employed in the sense which ...
... felicity by the hands of reason and of law . ' The degrading connotations which have gathered round the word Utility must be stripped off if we are to understand Bentham and his system , and the term must be employed in the sense which ...
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الصفحة 4 - The desires and other passions of man are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them; which, till laws be made, they cannot know: nor can any law be made till they have agreed upon the person that shall make it.
الصفحة 77 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
الصفحة 2 - Sudden glory' is the passion which maketh those 'grimaces' called 'laughter'; and is caused either by some sudden act of their own that pleaseth them, or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves.
الصفحة 4 - For moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different...
الصفحة 3 - ... another; yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man, and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit, to which another may not pretend, as well as he.
الصفحة 101 - But there is no known Epicurean theory of life which does not assign to the pleasures of the intellect, of the feelings and imagination, and of the moral sentiments, a much higher value as pleasures than to those of mere sensation. It must be admitted...
الصفحة 107 - 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.
الصفحة 61 - ... you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty itself : and to preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it. Had it strength, as it has right ; had it power, as it has manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world.
الصفحة 1 - But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good, and the object of his hate and aversion, evil, aud of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable.
الصفحة 116 - This firm foundation is that of the social feelings of mankind; the desire to be in unity with our fellow-creatures, which is already a powerful principle in human nature, and happily one of those which tend to become stronger even without express inculcation, from the influences of advancing civilization.