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Common terms and phrases
absolute abstract action activity actual altruism ancient animal Aristotle attainment become Benevolence Butler called character Christianity citizens claim conception conduct Conscience consciousness constitute Cyrenaic Cyrenaicism distinction divine dualism duty egoism element empiricism Epicurean essential ethical theory evil evolution experience external facts feeling force freedom Greek happiness Hedonism hedonistic Hegel higher idea implies impulse individual inner insight instinct intellectual interests interpretation Intuitionism irrational J. S. Mill Justice Kant Kantian Leslie Stephen less life's live man's master means merely metaphysical modern monism Moral Ideal moralists object organisation pain perfect person philosophy physical Plato pleasure possible practical principle problem Prudence psychological hedonism Psychology pure question rational realisation reality reason recognises reflection regard scientific self-hood self-realisation sense sensi sensibility sentient social society Socrates soul sphere spirit Stoicism Stoics supreme task tendency things thought tion true ultimate unity universal Utilitarianism vidual virtue volition
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Page 101 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
Page 242 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.
Page 164 - And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee : for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Page 400 - Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
Page 99 - But there is no known Epicurean theory of life which does not assign to the pleasures of the intellect, of the feelings and imagination, and of the moral sentiments, a much higher value as pleasures than to those of mere sensation.
Page 97 - I must again repeat what the assailants of utilitarianism seldom have the justice to acknowledge, that the happiness which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct is not the agent's own happiness but that of all concerned. As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.
Page 451 - The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie. My music shows ye have your closes. And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives ; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
Page 241 - Within himself, from more to more; Or, crown'd with attributes of woe Like glories, move his course, and show That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter' d with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Page 100 - Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Page 84 - Some for the Glories of This World; and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come; Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum! XIV Look to the blowing Rose about us — 'Lo, Laughing...