The Ethical ProblemOpen court publishing Company, 1890 - 90 Seiten |
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The Ethical Problem: Three Lectures on Ethics As a Science... Paul Carus Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2013 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accordingly ALFRED BINET base ethics basis of ethics become Bentham Binet called cause churches compulsion conception consciousness considered creed data of ethics death desire dogmatic duty egotism egotistic motives enjoyment Ethical Culture ethical ideal ethical movement ethical problem Ethical Record ethical teacher existence facts Faust formal ethics formal laws freedom freethinker Giordano Bruno greatest growth higher higher evolution human soul idea individual Intuitionalism intuitionalist John Stuart Mill justice and love Kant Kant's knowledge laws of form lectures ligion live logic man's mankind MAX MÜLLER means monism moral motives natural object old religions Open Court PAUL CARUS philosophical pleasurable feeling principle PROF progress Psychology pursuit of happiness reason regulate religion of science religious revelation satisfaction says Schopenhauer Societies for Ethical Socrates standpoint super-individual supernatural system of ethics THEORIES OF ETHICS things thinkers thought threads tion truth understand unto Utilitarians views wants welfare
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 77 - Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'Tis something better not to be.
Seite ii - 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.
Seite 83 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
Seite 76 - Then old age and experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death and make him understand After a search so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong.
Seite 78 - Thus here, by dangers girt, shall glide away Of childhood, manhood, age, the vigorous day : And such a throng I fain would see Stand on free soil among a people free ! Then dared I hail the moment fleeing, Ah, still delay — thou art so fair...
Seite 14 - Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.
Seite 21 - That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Seite 26 - ... from experience. Thus we would say of a man who undermined the foundations of his house, that he might have known a priori that it would fall, that is, that he need not have waited for the experience of its actual falling.
Seite 75 - The enchantment of distance shows us paradises which vanish like optical illusions when we have allowed ourselves to be mocked by them. Happiness accordingly always lies in the future, or else in the past, and the present may be compared to a small dark cloud which the wind drives over the sunny plain : before and behind it all is bright, only it itself always casts a shadow.