| John Watson - 1895 - 280 sayfa
...individual should in all cases be moved to act solely by regard for the general interests of society. " The motive has nothing to do with the morality of the action. He who saves a fellow-creature from drowning does what is morally right, whether his motive be duty,... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1897 - 416 sayfa
...exacting, but this criticism confounds the Rule of Action with the Motive of it, lll ff. — affirms that the Motive has nothing to do with the Morality of...the Action, though much with the worth of the Agent, ll2 — makes the good of Society the End, but not the Motive, of Action, ll3, ll4 — is affirmed... | |
| John Stuart Mackenzie - 1897 - 484 sayfa
...especially if it indicates a good or a bad habitual disposition." "The motive of an action," he says again,2 "has nothing to do with the morality of the action, though much with the worth of the agent." The reasonableness of this view is apparent. If one man is animated by compassion and another by fear,... | |
| 1899 - 802 sayfa
...distinction drawn by Kant between rules of skill, counsels of prudence, and commands of morality. 7. " The motive has nothing to do with the morality of...action, though much with the worth of the agent." Comment upon this feature of Utilitarianism, as explained by Mill. 8. Is the doctrine of psychological... | |
| Aaron Schuyler - 1902 - 476 sayfa
...on the intention, or on the consequences? In regard to this question, philosophers are divided. Mill says, "The motive has nothing to do with the morality of the act." Bentham defines motive as "that for the sake of which an action is done." "The intention includes... | |
| Ernest Albee - 1902 - 450 sayfa
...and more particularly, has Mill a right to appropriate the argument of the earlier Utilitarians, that the motive has nothing to do with the morality of the action ? That was part and parcel of what we may call the extreme ' dualism' of their ethical theory: their... | |
| William Ritchie Sorley - 1904 - 362 sayfa
...produced. According to Mill, "utilitarian moralists have gone beyond almost all others in affirming that the motive has nothing to do with the morality of...action, though much with the worth of the agent." l And this seems to be just what evolutionism objects to. Even the worth of the agent is, according... | |
| Edward Westermarck - 1906 - 756 sayfa
...multitude, be content with judging of the surface only. Stuart Mill, in his famous statement that " the motive has nothing to do with the morality of the action, though much with the worth of the agent,"2 has drawn a distinction between acts and agents which is foreign to the moral consciousness.... | |
| Edward Westermarck - 1906 - 752 sayfa
...indirectly exercise much influence on moral judgments, p. 207 si]. — Refutation of Mill's statement that "the motive has nothing to do with the morality of the action," p. 208 stj. — Moral judgments really passed upon men as acting or willing, not upon acts or volitions... | |
| 1908 - 624 sayfa
...ii., where we read that "utilitarian moralists have gone beyond almost all others in affirming that the motive has nothing to do with the morality of...the action, though much with the worth of the agent ". That motives do not affect the morality of the action but that they do affect the worth of the agent,... | |
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