Moral Values: A Study of the Principles of Conduct

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H. Holt, 1918 - 439 էջ
 

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PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL BETTERMENT
245
CHAPTER IX
250
CAN A MAN DO MORE THAN HIS DUTY?
253
INTUITIONALISM AND EMPIRICISM
256
CRITICISM OF INTUITIONALISM
262
THE HISTORICAL VIEW
267
THE AUTHORITY OF CONSCIENCE
274
THE SOCIAL CONSCIENCE
277
COERCIVE AND SPONTANEOUS ELEMENTS IN THE MORAL LIFE
280
CHAPTER X
283
THE TWOFOLD JUDGMENT OF CONDUCT
284
VIRTUE AS SUBJECTIVE OR FORmal Goodness
286
THE PLACE OF VIRTUE IN ETHICAL THEORY
290
KNOWLEDGE AND VIRTUE
295
THE UNITY OF THE VIRTUES
299
MILITANT AND SPONTANEOUS VIRTUE
302
CHAPTER XI
308
MORAL LAW AND JURAL LAW
309
MORAL LAW AND NATURAL LAW
312
THE NATURAL SANCTIONS OF MORALITY
318
MORAL SCEPTICISM HISTORICAL SURVEY
320
THE ANSWER TO SCEPTICISM
324
OBJECTIVITY OF THE MORAL LAW
330
CHAPTER XII
335
KANTIAN DUALISM
338
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF INDETERMINISM
339
POINTS OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN DETERMINISTS AND INDETERMINISTS
343
THE MECHANISM OF CHOICE
345
THE NATURE OF THE SELF
349
UNITY OF EFFICIENT AND FINAL CAUSATION
351
INDETERMINISM AT VARIANCE WITH PRACTICE
353
FREEDOM CONSISTENT WITH DETERMINISM
356
OBJECTIONS TO DETERMINISM ANSWERED
360
FATALISM AND DETERMINISM 363
363
FURTHER OBJECTIONS ANSWERED
365
RESPONSIBILITY AND PUNISHMENT
369
THE DETERMINISTS ATTITUDE TOWARDS LIFE 374
374
CHAPTER XIII
377
DISTINCTION BETWEEN MORALITY AND RELIGION
380
THE NATURE OF RELIGION
382
THE INTERACTION OF MORALITY AND RELIGION
390
NONETHICAL ETHICAL AND ANTIETHICAL ELEMENTS OF RELIGION
396
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
405
DUALISTIC AND PLURALISTIC SOLUTIONS
406
MONISTIC SOLUTIONS
410
EVIL NO ILLUSION
416
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Էջ 69 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
Էջ 69 - Now, it is an unquestionable fact, that those who are equally acquainted with, and equally capable of appreciating and enjoying both, do give a most marked preference to the manner of existence which employs their higher faculties.
Էջ 173 - If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
Էջ 67 - I must again repeat, what the assailants of utilitarianism seldom have the justice to acknowledge, that the happiness which forms 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. In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as you...
Էջ 413 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Էջ 262 - Just in the same way that I believe the intuition of space, possessed by any living individual, to have arisen from organized and consolidated experiences of all antecedent individuals who bequeathed to him their...
Էջ 142 - Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Character in dem Strom der Welt.
Էջ 344 - In vain our pent wills fret, And would the world subdue. Limits we did not set Condition all we do; Born into life we are, and life must be our mould. Born into life! — man grows Forth from his parents...
Էջ 261 - The truly moral deterrent from murder, is not constituted by a representation of hanging as a consequence, or by a representation of tortures in hell as a consequence, or by a representation of the horror and hatred excited in...
Էջ 293 - 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.

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