Handbook of Moral PhilosophyMacmillan, 1883 - 319 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... motive , act , and end ; and where such discrimination does not exist , there is no morality . The knowledge of moral distinctions , and the practice of morality , are in such a case equally impossible ; Shaftesbury , Inquiry concerning ...
... motive , act , and end ; and where such discrimination does not exist , there is no morality . The knowledge of moral distinctions , and the practice of morality , are in such a case equally impossible ; Shaftesbury , Inquiry concerning ...
Pagina 19
... motive , act , and end . As these may be distinguished from each other , they may differ in moral quality . The motive may be right , though the act is wrong . The end is the voluntary purpose of the agent , which will commonly ...
... motive , act , and end . As these may be distinguished from each other , they may differ in moral quality . The motive may be right , though the act is wrong . The end is the voluntary purpose of the agent , which will commonly ...
Pagina 25
... motives which influence it . ' -Part iii . c . I. For his argument that ' general rules of morality ' are formed by finding from experience that all actions of a certain kind are approved or disapproved of , ' v . Part iii . c . 4 . DR ...
... motives which influence it . ' -Part iii . c . I. For his argument that ' general rules of morality ' are formed by finding from experience that all actions of a certain kind are approved or disapproved of , ' v . Part iii . c . 4 . DR ...
Pagina 27
... motive of the agent , and the contemplated end . If the relations of persons be that of parent and child ; if the motive of the parent be desire of the child's improvement ; and the warrant , a parent's right to restrain disobedience in ...
... motive of the agent , and the contemplated end . If the relations of persons be that of parent and child ; if the motive of the parent be desire of the child's improvement ; and the warrant , a parent's right to restrain disobedience in ...
Pagina 78
... motive forces , and restraining forces , which operate within human nature . Every spring of activity within us operates according to a law of its own nature . Thus every affection and desire comes into play under a definite law ...
... motive forces , and restraining forces , which operate within human nature . Every spring of activity within us operates according to a law of its own nature . Thus every affection and desire comes into play under a definite law ...
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Pagina 128 - But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth 'good'; and the object of his hate and aversion, 'evil'; and of his contempt 'vile' and 'inconsiderable.' For these words of good, evil, and contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them, there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves...
Pagina 28 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Pagina 7 - European History, Narrated in a Series of Historical Selections from the best Authorities. Edited and arranged by EM SEWELL and CM YONGE. First Series, crown 8vo. 6s. ; Second Series, 1088-1228, crown 8vo. 6s. Third Edition. " We know of scarcely anything," says the GUARDIAN, of this volume, "which is so likely to raise to a higher level the average standard of English education.
Pagina 28 - THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. Edited from the Original Edition, by JW CLARK, MA, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Pagina 129 - the doing good to mankind, in " obedience to the will of God, and for the " sake of everlasting happiness...
Pagina 28 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.
Pagina 129 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Pagina 50 - The original of them all, is that which we call SENSE, for there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not at first, totally or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense.
Pagina 129 - For there is no such finis ultimus (utmost aim), nor summum bonum (greatest good) , as is spoken of in the books of the old moral philosophers. Nor can a man any more live whose desires are at an end than he whose senses and imaginations are at a stand. Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
Pagina 28 - Messrs. Macmillan have, in their Golden Treasury Series especially, provided editions of standard works, -volumes of selected poetry, and original compositions, which entitle this series to be called classical. Nothing can be better than the literary execution, nothing more elegant than the material workmanship