The Evolution of Morality: Being a History of the Development of Moral Culture, Volumen1Trübner & Company, 1878 - 981 páginas |
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... enemies of all kinds , and would probably have hunted for their subsistence , as well as for that of their offspring . They would have been governed more by their instincts , and even less by their reason than are savages at the present ...
... enemies of all kinds , and would probably have hunted for their subsistence , as well as for that of their offspring . They would have been governed more by their instincts , and even less by their reason than are savages at the present ...
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... enemies . Consequently , it generally happens that the death of one person leads to that of another . The sor- even cerer has to be discovered and killed , or if death has resulted from violence , the murderer must pay the pen- alty ...
... enemies . Consequently , it generally happens that the death of one person leads to that of another . The sor- even cerer has to be discovered and killed , or if death has resulted from violence , the murderer must pay the pen- alty ...
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... enemy , it is as a mark of contempt or as a signal act of vengeance , and partly , perhaps , as with the New Zealanders , to obtain certain qualities thought to belong to the victim , but morally ( if this term can be so applied ) the ...
... enemy , it is as a mark of contempt or as a signal act of vengeance , and partly , perhaps , as with the New Zealanders , to obtain certain qualities thought to belong to the victim , but morally ( if this term can be so applied ) the ...
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... enemies with their teeth . The offering of human sacrifices was undoubtedly practised by the Sandwich Islanders , and such sacrifices were more frequent among them than with any other of the peoples visited by Cook . Not only were they ...
... enemies with their teeth . The offering of human sacrifices was undoubtedly practised by the Sandwich Islanders , and such sacrifices were more frequent among them than with any other of the peoples visited by Cook . Not only were they ...
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... enemies , and perhaps under special circumstances their own dead , were eaten ) was evidently a matter of taste . The native tombs were ornamented with the skulls or bones of the deceased ; and some of them appear to have been under ...
... enemies , and perhaps under special circumstances their own dead , were eaten ) was evidently a matter of taste . The native tombs were ornamented with the skulls or bones of the deceased ; and some of them appear to have been under ...
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Página 2 - According to the one opinion, the principles of morals are evident a priori, requiring nothing to command assent except that the meaning of the terms be understood. According to the other doctrine, right and wrong, as well as truth and falsehood, are questions of observation and experience.
Página 23 - ... the rules and precepts for human conduct," by the observance of which an existence such as has been described might be, to the greatest extent possible, secured to all mankind; and not to them only, but, so far as the nature of things admits, to the whole sentient creation.
Página 25 - The deeply rooted conception which every individual even now has of himself as a social being, tends to make him feel it one of his natural wants that there should be harmony between his feelings and aims and those of his fellow creatures.
Página 12 - This is a constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty itself: and, to preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it. Had it strength, as it has right ; had it power, as it has manifest authority ; it would absolutely govern the world...
Página 49 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man.
Página 208 - ... want of food, when the father of a child has forsaken its mother, or when obliged to flee from the Farmers or others; in which case they will strangle them, smother them, cast them away in the desert, or bury them alive. There are instances of parents throwing their tender offspring to the hungry Lion, who stands roaring before their cavern, refusing to depart till some peace-offering be made to him.
Página 23 - ... original conditions by which virtue is made virtue ; however they may believe (as they do) that actions and dispositions are only virtuous because they promote another end than virtue ; yet this being granted, and it having been decided, from considerations of this description, what...
Página 23 - 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.
Página 25 - Its binding force, however, consists in the existence of a mass of feeling which must be broken through in order to do what violates our standard of right, and which, if we do nevertheless violate that standard, will probably have to be encountered afterwards in the form of remorse.
Página 177 - Tshaka ordered several men to be executed on the spot; and the cries became, if possible, more violent than ever. No further orders were needed; but, as if bent on convincing their chief of their -extreme grief, the multitude commenced a general massacre. Many of them received the blow of death while inflicting it on others, each taking the opportunity of revenging his injuries, real or imaginary. Those who could no more force tears from their eyes — those who were found near the river panting...