Lectures on the Ethics of T.H. Green, Mr. Herbert Spencer, and J. Martineau

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Macmillan, 1902 - 374 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 355 - LOWEST 1. Secondary Passions: Censoriousness, Vindictiveness, Suspiciousness. 2. Secondary Organic Propensions: Love of Ease and Sensual Pleasure. 3. Primary Organic Propensions: Appetites. 4. Primary Animal Propension: Spontaneous Activity (unselective) . 5. Love of Gain (reflective, derivative from Appetite) . 6. Secondary Affections (sentimental indulgence of sympathetic feelings) . 7. Primary Passions: Antipathy, Fear, Resentment.
Sayfa 53 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance but itself; no beauty, nor good nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour. The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard...
Sayfa 142 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Sayfa 268 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Sayfa 158 - ... achievement of the highest life. That the intuitions of a moral faculty should guide our conduct, is a proposition in which a truth is contained ; for these intuitions are the slowly organized results of experiences received by the race while . living in presence of these conditions.
Sayfa 147 - This is true as far as it goes ; but, ignoring as he does all passages concerning the universal process of adaptation, Mr. Sidgwick omits a large part of the evidence favouring optimism. The chapter on the " Relativity of Pains and Pleasures," sets forth and illustrates the biological truth that everywhere faculties adjust themselves to the conditions of existence, in such wise that the activities those conditions require become pleasurable. The pains accompanying the inactions of faculties for which...
Sayfa 201 - ... how the straight man comports himself ; shows in what relationship he stands to other straight men; shows how a community of straight men is constituted. Any deviation from strict rectitude he is obliged wholly to ignore. It cannot be admitted into his premises without vitiating all his conclusions. A problem in which a crooked man forms one of the elements is insoluble to him.
Sayfa 73 - Thus the ideal of virtue which our consciences acknowledge has come to be the devotion of character and life, in whatever channel the idiosyncrasy and circumstances of the individual may determine, to a perfecting of man, which is itself conceived not as an external end to be attained by goodness, but as consisting in such a life of self-devoted activity on the part of all persons.
Sayfa 254 - ... two cardinal and opposed principles of animal-ethics. During immaturity benefits received must be inversely proportionate to capacities possessed. Within the familygroup most must be given where least is deserved, if desert is measured by worth. Contrariwise, after maturity is reached benefit must vary directly as worth : worth being measured by fitness to the conditions of existence.

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