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... conception , separated from the smallest trace of experience . For the history of philosophic thought on this subject , Pt . 1. Div . ii . c . i . 10. Among states of consciousness , there are some which discover that we are not pure ...
... conception , separated from the smallest trace of experience . For the history of philosophic thought on this subject , Pt . 1. Div . ii . c . i . 10. Among states of consciousness , there are some which discover that we are not pure ...
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... seeking first to ascertain what is the Ethical idea or conception . 2. In the Intellectual department of Mental Science , Psychology deals with the facts of our experience belonging to PSYCHOLOGY OF ETHICS PRELIMINARY.
... seeking first to ascertain what is the Ethical idea or conception . 2. In the Intellectual department of Mental Science , Psychology deals with the facts of our experience belonging to PSYCHOLOGY OF ETHICS PRELIMINARY.
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Henry Calderwood. encumbered by discussing the question of Morals under the general conception of The Good , as a character of things , rather than under the conception of The Right , as a quality of actions . It commonly led to an ...
Henry Calderwood. encumbered by discussing the question of Morals under the general conception of The Good , as a character of things , rather than under the conception of The Right , as a quality of actions . It commonly led to an ...
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... conceptions of Industry and Honesty . When we speak of an Intuitional Theory of Moral Dis- tinctions , we mean that the Law which decides what is right is so connected with the nature of the Person , that the recognition of it is ...
... conceptions of Industry and Honesty . When we speak of an Intuitional Theory of Moral Dis- tinctions , we mean that the Law which decides what is right is so connected with the nature of the Person , that the recognition of it is ...
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... conceptions as piety , justice , bravery , temperance , and virtue . In this , as Aristotle affirms , Metaph . xii . 4 , he simply carried out a pro- cess of generalization , in order to form a general or abstract conception , which ...
... conceptions as piety , justice , bravery , temperance , and virtue . In this , as Aristotle affirms , Metaph . xii . 4 , he simply carried out a pro- cess of generalization , in order to form a general or abstract conception , which ...
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Page 129 - the doing good to mankind, in " obedience to the will of God, and for the " sake of everlasting happiness...
Page 19 - GEORGE WILSON, MD, FRSE, Regius Professor of Technology in the University of Edinburgh. By his SISTER. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s. "An exquisite and touching portrait of a rare and beautiful spirit.
Page 129 - 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.
Page 129 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
Page 50 - The original of them all, is that which we call SENSE, for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not at first, totally or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense.
Page 129 - For there is no such finis ultimus (utmost aim), nor summum bonum (greatest good) , as is spoken of in the books of the old moral philosophers. Nor can a man any more live whose desires are at an end than he whose senses and imaginations are at a stand. Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.