A Handbook of Ethical TheoryH. Holt, 1922 - 380 pages |
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accepted action actual appears approve Aristippus Aristotle attainment benevolence Bentham Book called capacities chapter civilized claim codes conceived conduct conscience conscious conservatism creature custom decisions degree deliberate Diogenes Laertius doctrine duties egoist emotions enlightened environment Epictetus Epicurus evolution expression fact feeling follow give given Greatest Happiness Principle happiness Hegel Henry Sidgwick human nature Ibid impulses individual influence instincts intelligence interests Intuitionism intuitionist John Stuart Mill judge justice Kant less live maintain man's nature Marcus Aurelius means Methods of Ethics mind moral intuitions moral judgments moralists motive Nietzsche one's organization philosopher Plato pleasure and pain primitive principle public opinion punishment question Rational Social realization reason recognized regard religion revealed rule satisfaction scarcely seems self-realization sense Sidgwick significance sort speak strive things Thomas Hill Green tion truth ultimate utilitarian virtues volition whole wholly word writes wrong
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Page 228 - No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons.
Page 221 - 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.
Page 225 - It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
Page 227 - The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it; the only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it: and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that any thing is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.
Page 263 - Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed not only by hostile influences but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them, are not favourable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise.
Page 225 - Of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Page 223 - Intense, long, certain, speedy, fruitful, pure — Such marks in pleasures and in pains endure. Such pleasures seek, if private be thy end: If it be public, wide let them extend. Such pains avoid, whichever be thy view: If pains must come, let them extend to few.
Page 205 - ... to us. As we should not be obliged to obey the laws, or the magistrate, unless rewards or punishments, pleasure or pain, somehow or other, depended upon our obedience; so neither should we. without the same reason, be obliged to do what is right, to practise virtue, or to obey the commands of God.
Page 221 - ... pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
Page 17 - But my nature is rational and social ; and my city and country, so far as I am Antoninus, is Rome, but so far as I am a man, it is the world.
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Ethics, with Special Application to the Medical and Nursing Professions Joseph Bernard McAllister Affichage d'extraits - 1955 |