EthicsH. Holt, 1908 - 618 sivua |
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action activity agencies appetite Aristotle aspects attitude basis Bentham character civilization clan common conception conduct consciousness consequences coöperation customs Cyrenaics desire distinct duty E. B. Tylor economic effect Epicureans Ethics evil external factors feeling force freedom give Greek habits happiness Hebrew hence human idea ideal impulse indi individual individualistic industry instinct intelligence intention interest Jehovah judge judgment justice Kafir Kant kinship labor marriage means mediæval ment merely method Mezes modern moral moral core motive nature ness nomic object organization pain pathy phratry Plato pleasure political possible present principle problem Protagoras psychological hedonism rational reason regard relation religion religious satisfaction sense social society Socrates standard Stoics sympathy tendency theory thing thought tion tribe utilitarianism vidual virtue voluntary
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Sivu 253 - It is," he says, "quite compatible with the principle of utility to recognize the fact that some kinds of pleasure are more desirable and more valuable than others. Human beings have faculties more elevated than the animal appetites, and, when once made conscious of them, do not regard anything as happiness
Sivu 233 - Nothing can possibly be conceived, in the world or out of it, which can be called Good without qualification, except a Good Will. Intelligence, wit, judgment, and the other talents of the mind, however they may be named, or courage, resolution, perseverance as qualities of temperament are
Sivu 260 - 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.
Sivu 238 - out what we ought to do as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand, the standard of right and wrong, on the other .chain of causes
Sivu 238 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatever according to the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question.
Sivu 286 - The principle if made universal simply contradicts itself, and thus reveals that it is no principle at all, not rational. Summing this up in a formula, we get as our standard of right action the principle: "Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature
Sivu 80 - but we will have a king over us; that we may also be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Sivu 183 - Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
Sivu 233 - good and desirable in many respects; but these gifts of nature may also become extremely bad and mischievous, if the will which is to make use of them and which, therefore, constitutes what is called character, is not good. It is the same with the gifts of fortune. Power, riches, honor, even health
Sivu 233 - A Good Will is good, not because of what it performs or effects, not by its aptness for the attainment of some proposed end, but simply by virtue of the volition; that is, it is good in itself. . . . Even if it should happen that, owing to