 The truth that conduct is considered by us as good or bad, according as its aggregate results, to self or others or both, are pleasurable or painful, we found on examination to be involved in all the current judgments on conduct : the proof being that...  The Principles of Ethics - Sayfa 330Herbert Spencer tarafından - 1893Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 1879 - 592 sayfa
...being the vital point of Mr. Spencer's ethical theory, we will quote his own summary of his argument : The truth that conduct is considered by us as good...conduct derives its authority from this standard. Whether perfection of nature is the assigned proper aim, or virtuousness of action, or rectitude of... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1879 - 320 sayfa
...life, we can do so only with the implication thatTiTis conducive to a surplus of pleasures over pains. The truth that conduct is considered by us as good...conduct derives its authority from this standard. Whether perfection of nature is the assigned proper aim, or virtuousness of action, or rectitude of... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1879 - 308 sayfa
...life, we can do so only with the implication that it is conducive to a surplus of pleasures over pains. The truth that conduct is considered by us as good...involved in all the current judgments on conduct : the p_roof_being that reversing the_applications of the words creates absurdities. And we found that every... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1879 - 320 sayfa
...life, we can do so only with the implication that it is conducive to a surplus of pleasures over pains. The truth that conduct is considered by us as good...self or others or both, are pleasurable or painful, wo found on examination to be involved in all the current judgments on conduct: the proof being that... | |
 | 1879 - 690 sayfa
...implication that it is conducive to a surplus of pleasures over pains ' (p. 45). This view of conduct as good or bad, ' according as its aggregate results,...self or others or both, are pleasurable or painful,' Mr. Spencer demonstrates conclusively to be involved in all the current judgments on conduct ; while... | |
 | 1880 - 298 sayfa
...are called good or bad according as they are well or ill adjusted to ends." In the ethical sense, " conduct is considered by us as good or bad, according...self or others or both, are pleasurable or painful." " Pleasure somewhere, at some time, to some being or beings, is an inexpugnable element of the conception."... | |
 | 1880 - 294 sayfa
...are called good or bad according as they are well or ill adjusted to ends." In the ethical sense, " conduct is considered by us as good or bad, according...self or others or both, are pleasurable or painful." " Pleasure somewhere, at some time, to some being or beings, is an inexpugnable element of the conception."... | |
 | William David Ground - 1883 - 394 sayfa
...effects on all persons, the good is universally the pleasurable f." He thus sums up the chapter : — " The truth that conduct is considered by us as good...conduct derives its authority from this standard. Whether perfection of nature is the assigned proper aim, or virtuousness of action, or rectitude of... | |
 | William David Ground - 1883 - 392 sayfa
...effects on all persons, the good is universally the pleasurable f." He thus sums up the chapter : — " The truth that conduct is considered by us as good...conduct derives its authority from this standard. Whether perfection of nature is the assigned proper aim, or virtuousness of action, or rectitude of... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1887 - 606 sayfa
...action reached ? What is the determining reason for considering an action good or bad ? Obviously, conduct is considered by us as good or bad according...self, or others, or both, are pleasurable or painful. Mr. Spencer shows that every other proposed standard of conduct derives its authority from this standard:... | |
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