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... merely as Intelligence , but also as Power . I am a self - conscious , intelligent , self - determining Power . I mere living Organism , and not a mere Thing . Personality thus involves self - conscious being , self - regulated ...
... merely as Intelligence , but also as Power . I am a self - conscious , intelligent , self - determining Power . I mere living Organism , and not a mere Thing . Personality thus involves self - conscious being , self - regulated ...
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... merely physical , or purely intellectual , does not necessarily come within the moral sphere . For example , walking , leaping , and lifting ; efforts of attention , reasoning , and memory , are not in themselves moral actions . 6 ...
... merely physical , or purely intellectual , does not necessarily come within the moral sphere . For example , walking , leaping , and lifting ; efforts of attention , reasoning , and memory , are not in themselves moral actions . 6 ...
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... merely provide for the combination of the facts of knowledge , these cannot afford any theory of the origin of our knowledge of moral distinctions . Sentimental and Associational theories are thus excluded on exactly the same ground ...
... merely provide for the combination of the facts of knowledge , these cannot afford any theory of the origin of our knowledge of moral distinctions . Sentimental and Associational theories are thus excluded on exactly the same ground ...
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... mere capacity of feeling or of sensation . Thus Shaftesbury ( 1671-1713 ) , " In a creature capable of forming general notions of things , not only the outward beings which offer themselves to the sense , are the objects of the ...
... mere capacity of feeling or of sensation . Thus Shaftesbury ( 1671-1713 ) , " In a creature capable of forming general notions of things , not only the outward beings which offer themselves to the sense , are the objects of the ...
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... merely to the fact that such truths are dis- covered in consciousness . But Induction as little explains the intellectual and ethical authority of these truths , as it settles the nature of the facts pertaining to physical science . The ...
... merely to the fact that such truths are dis- covered in consciousness . But Induction as little explains the intellectual and ethical authority of these truths , as it settles the nature of the facts pertaining to physical science . The ...
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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.