The Evolution of Morality: Being a History of the Development of Moral Culture, Volumen1Trübner & Company, 1878 - 981 páginas |
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... mother who loves her infant cannot justly be said to have sympathy for it , she is certainly in sympathy with it . Love indeed , seems to be merely an intense form of sympathy - combined , it is true , in its higher phases with other ...
... mother who loves her infant cannot justly be said to have sympathy for it , she is certainly in sympathy with it . Love indeed , seems to be merely an intense form of sympathy - combined , it is true , in its higher phases with other ...
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... mother is a very affectionate one , tending her offspring with the greatest care , and in her own wild way being as loving a parent as can be found in any part of the world . " This is well shown by the jealousy with which she guards ...
... mother is a very affectionate one , tending her offspring with the greatest care , and in her own wild way being as loving a parent as can be found in any part of the world . " This is well shown by the jealousy with which she guards ...
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... mothers , over whom they often tyrannize . ' 2 3 But , perhaps , the precept which forbids homicide , is more agreeable to the customs of the Australian aborigines . It is not necessary to dwell on the many treacherous , and apparently ...
... mothers , over whom they often tyrannize . ' 2 3 But , perhaps , the precept which forbids homicide , is more agreeable to the customs of the Australian aborigines . It is not necessary to dwell on the many treacherous , and apparently ...
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... mother is not permitted 1 op . cit . , i . , 324 . 2 Collins ' " Account of New South Wales , " vol . ii . , P. 124 . 3 See Lang's " Queensland , " p . 355 , seq . Comp . with Mr Donald's curious account of the mode of preparing the ...
... mother is not permitted 1 op . cit . , i . , 324 . 2 Collins ' " Account of New South Wales , " vol . ii . , P. 124 . 3 See Lang's " Queensland , " p . 355 , seq . Comp . with Mr Donald's curious account of the mode of preparing the ...
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... mother's legal perquisite in all such cases , is thrown to her , and this she proceeds to eat , sobbing the while . " 1 Thus far as to homicide . Perhaps it will be found that the aborigines of Australia are less prone to the commission ...
... mother's legal perquisite in all such cases , is thrown to her , and this she proceeds to eat , sobbing the while . " 1 Thus far as to homicide . Perhaps it will be found that the aborigines of Australia are less prone to the commission ...
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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...