Moral Science: A Compendium of EthicsAmerican Book Company, 1869 - 337 ページ |
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according actions Adam Smith affections agent appetite Aristippus Aristotle association Beneficence Benevolence called cardinal virtues categorical Imperative Chapter character Chrysippus conduct connexion Conscience consequences considers constitution Courage Cyrenaics Deity desire determined disinterested disposition distinction Divine doctrine duty Epictetus Epicurean Epicurus Ethics evil existence external fact farther feelings friendship gives happiness Herbert Spencer highest honour idea individual innate intellectual interest JAMES MILL judgment Justice laws of nature mankind means ment merit mind moral approbation Moral Faculty moral rules Moral Sense moral sentiment motive Nicomachean Ethics Noumenon object obligation opinion ourselves passions pathy perfect person philosophy Plato pleasures and pains Plotinus political practical praise principle Protagoras Prudence punishment pure question racter rational reason reference regard remarks right and wrong sanction self-interest self-love social society Sokrates Standard Stoicism Stoics Summum Bonum sympathy tendency theory things tion truth universal Utility virtue virtuous voluntary
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288 ページ - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
136 ページ - From this fundamental law of nature, by which men are commanded to endeavour peace, is derived this second law; that a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth, as for peace, and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
292 ページ - The internal sanction of duty, whatever our standard of duty may be, is one and the same — a feeling in our own mind ; a pain, more or less intense, attendant on violation of duty, which in properly cultivated moral natures rises, in the more serious cases, into shrinking from it as an impossibility.
292 ページ - ... derived from sympathy, from love, and still more from fear; from all the forms of religious feeling; from the recollections of childhood and of all our past life; from self-esteem, desire of the esteem of others, and occasionally even self-abasement.
133 ページ - By manners I mean not here decency of behaviour, as how one man should salute another, or how a man should wash his mouth, or pick his teeth before company, and such other points of the "small morals"; but those qualities of mankind that concern their living together in peace and unity.
218 ページ - What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience...
290 ページ - I grant that they are, notwithstanding, of opinion that in the long run the best proof of a good character is good actions; and resolutely refuse to consider any mental disposition as good of which the predominant tendency is to produce bad conduct.
133 ページ - Also to receive benefits, though from an equal or inferior, as long as there is hope of requital, disposeth to love; for, in the intention of the receiver, the obligation is of aid and service mutual, from whence proceedeth an emulation of who shall exceed in benefiting, the most noble and profitable contention possible, wherein the victor is pleased with his victory, and the other revenged by confessing it.
294 ページ - Life would be a poor thing, very ill provided with sources of happiness, if there were not this provision of nature, by which things originally indifferent, but conducive to, or otherwise associated with, the satisfaction of our primitive desires, become in themselves sources of pleasure more valuable than the primitive pleasures, both in permanency, in the space of human existence that they are capable of covering, and even in intensity.
140 ページ - Philosophy, though they acknowledge the same virtues and vices, yet, not seeing wherein consisted their goodness, nor that they come to be praised as the means of peaceable, sociable, and comfortable living, place them in a mediocrity of passions ; as if not the cause but the degree of daring made fortitude ; or not the cause but the quantity of a gift made liberality.