Morals in ReviewMacmillan, 1927 - 456 páginas |
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accept accordingly action actual alike appears approval Aristippus Aristotle aspect attainment beauty benevolence character claim conception concrete conduct connection conscience consequences conservatism constitutes desire doctrine duty emotional empirical empiricism Epicurean Epicurus essence ethical existence experience fact feeling Fichte give goal happiness hedonism Hegel Hobbes human nature Ibid ideal ideas individual inner intel intellectual interest intuitionism judgment justified knowledge less logical man's Mandeville means ment metaphysical method mind moral sense motive mystic necessary notion object particular passions perfection Phædo Philebus philosophy Plato pleasure political possible practical principle psychological qualities rational reality reason recognize Schopenhauer scientific sentiment Shaftesbury significance social society Socrates sort Spinoza spirit stand standard Stoic Stoicism sympathy teleology theodicy theory things thinking tion true truth ultimate universal Utilitarian virtue whole Xenophon
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Página 178 - Is it true of the idea of a triangle, that its three angles are equal to two right ones ? It is true also of a triangle, wherever it really exists.
Página 255 - They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life which would have been made had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants ; and thus, without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
Página 152 - Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter; and is caused either by some sudden act of their own that pleaseth them; or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another, by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves.
Página 350 - whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as a means only.
Página 288 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 308 - ... the art of legislation (which may be considered as one branch of the science of jurisprudence) teaches how a multitude of men, composing a community, may be disposed to pursue that course which upon the whole is the most conducive to the happiness of the whole community, by means of motives to be applied by the legislator.
Página 273 - Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects, which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. So that if self-love wholly engrosses us, and leaves no room for any other principle, there can be absolutely no such thing at all as happiness or enjoyment of any kind whatever; since happiness consists in the gratification of particular passions, which supposes the having of them.
Página 170 - The affects, therefore, of hatred, anger, envy, considered in themselves, follow from the same necessity and virtue of nature as other individual things; they have therefore certain causes through which they are to be understood, and certain properties which are just as worthy of being known as the properties of any other thing in the contemplation alone of which we delight.
Página 187 - A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death, but of life .... 237 Prop.
Página 267 - Everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds, and meantime, at 105°, one wonders what makes things seem so oddly distant.