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... qualities of thought and ex- pression which give permanent weight to their specu- lative freedom and precision . To study them is an education in ethics , both because they treat the chief topics of the science in a broad and vigorous ...
... qualities of thought and ex- pression which give permanent weight to their specu- lative freedom and precision . To study them is an education in ethics , both because they treat the chief topics of the science in a broad and vigorous ...
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... qualities of things to changes in the " ideas " of a thinking or knowing subject had been made by Locke , and applied by Berkeley and Hume to an increasing range of objects ; and this was not merely a revised idea of what con- stitutes ...
... qualities of things to changes in the " ideas " of a thinking or knowing subject had been made by Locke , and applied by Berkeley and Hume to an increasing range of objects ; and this was not merely a revised idea of what con- stitutes ...
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... qualities of a self- conscious subject . Such a subject is no mere sepa- rate existence , whose occasional interference renders personal action uncertain or accidental , and which may be alternately the passive creature and the in ...
... qualities of a self- conscious subject . Such a subject is no mere sepa- rate existence , whose occasional interference renders personal action uncertain or accidental , and which may be alternately the passive creature and the in ...
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... qualities , but which affects profoundly its most hidden springs and its most inward meaning ; yet their relation to conduct is not really the same in kind as that of the personal life in which it arises . They affect it , but they are ...
... qualities , but which affects profoundly its most hidden springs and its most inward meaning ; yet their relation to conduct is not really the same in kind as that of the personal life in which it arises . They affect it , but they are ...
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... qualities of volition , aspects of it which are as real , if not so relevant , as that with which psychology deals ; and no account of volition can be accepted as finally true which contradicts any of the facts that are adduced by these ...
... qualities of volition , aspects of it which are as real , if not so relevant , as that with which psychology deals ; and no account of volition can be accepted as finally true which contradicts any of the facts that are adduced by these ...
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Page 83 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page xcv - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
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