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... higher development , when dealing with relations which transcend the facts of experience , such as our relations to the Absolute Being , it wears the form of a Speculative Science . The denial of a speculative branch of the science must ...
... higher development , when dealing with relations which transcend the facts of experience , such as our relations to the Absolute Being , it wears the form of a Speculative Science . The denial of a speculative branch of the science must ...
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... higher and more complex order than simple Perception . A theory of the knowledge of moral distinctions by means of a moral sense , as an organ or power of perception , is thus shown to be impossible . 9. Knowledge of moral quality is of ...
... higher and more complex order than simple Perception . A theory of the knowledge of moral distinctions by means of a moral sense , as an organ or power of perception , is thus shown to be impossible . 9. Knowledge of moral quality is of ...
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... higher order , as the recognition of simple fact is perception or intuition of a lower order . Knowledge of the former kind implies direct insight into necessary truth . The possibility of such insight is 38 HANDBOOK OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY .
... higher order , as the recognition of simple fact is perception or intuition of a lower order . Knowledge of the former kind implies direct insight into necessary truth . The possibility of such insight is 38 HANDBOOK OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY .
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... higher than fact . 7. Viewed simply as a form of knowledge , knowledge of first principles is distinguished by intellectual quality , not by ethical . It is knowledge of truth , but it is not in any proper sense right action . Insight ...
... higher than fact . 7. Viewed simply as a form of knowledge , knowledge of first principles is distinguished by intellectual quality , not by ethical . It is knowledge of truth , but it is not in any proper sense right action . Insight ...
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... . Lib .; Lewes's Hist . of Philos .; Sir A. Grant's Aristotle , Essay ii . PLATO , born about 427 B.C. , rises into a higher region of enquiry . He gives to the general conceptions of Socrates 44 HANDBOOK OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY .
... . Lib .; Lewes's Hist . of Philos .; Sir A. Grant's Aristotle , Essay ii . PLATO , born about 427 B.C. , rises into a higher region of enquiry . He gives to the general conceptions of Socrates 44 HANDBOOK OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY .
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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.