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... wrong ; Honestum ( rectum ) , malum ; Kaλóν , KUкóν ; Recht , Unrecht . The same distinction is otherwise expressed by the phrases ' morally good , ' and ' morally bad . ' In these phrases , the term ' morally ' is used to indicate the ...
... wrong ; Honestum ( rectum ) , malum ; Kaλóν , KUкóν ; Recht , Unrecht . The same distinction is otherwise expressed by the phrases ' morally good , ' and ' morally bad . ' In these phrases , the term ' morally ' is used to indicate the ...
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... wrong , has commonly been accepted as the primary fact , giving occasion for a Moral Philosophy . ' Those who have denied the reality of Moral distinctions may be ranked among the disingenuous disputants ; nor is it con- ceivable that ...
... wrong , has commonly been accepted as the primary fact , giving occasion for a Moral Philosophy . ' Those who have denied the reality of Moral distinctions may be ranked among the disingenuous disputants ; nor is it con- ceivable that ...
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... wrong actions . 3. The actions possessed of moral quality are the actions of intelligent agents . If the term ' action ' be employed in a wider sense , such application goes beyond the moral sphere , as when we speak of the ' action ...
... wrong actions . 3. The actions possessed of moral quality are the actions of intelligent agents . If the term ' action ' be employed in a wider sense , such application goes beyond the moral sphere , as when we speak of the ' action ...
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... wrong . This phrase is as unsuitable as the other , for things morally right are not separated from things morally wrong by an intermediate territory . Moral distinctions 20 HANDBOOK OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY .
... wrong . This phrase is as unsuitable as the other , for things morally right are not separated from things morally wrong by an intermediate territory . Moral distinctions 20 HANDBOOK OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY .
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... wrong - doing may be taken as an illustration , with the ad- mission that there is a distinction between the shame felt on account of awkwardness , and that on account of wickedness . Second , Testimony from social life . Men are agreed ...
... wrong - doing may be taken as an illustration , with the ad- mission that there is a distinction between the shame felt on account of awkwardness , and that on account of wickedness . Second , Testimony from social life . Men are agreed ...
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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.