The Theory of Abstract EthicsUniversity Press, 1916 - 126 páginas |
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abstract ethics action actual altruism appearance applied Aristotle Berkeley called Carveth Read Comte Comte's conception conscience consciousness consists criterion deduction Demy 8vo Descartes determine distinction duty egoistic existence external fact fallacy formula G. E. Moore generalised hedonism historical Hobbes Hobbes's human Hume hylozoism idea ideal individual infinite numbers judgment Juvalta Kant Kant's Kantian law of contradiction law of justice liberty and justice logic mathematics maxim means merely meta metaphysical metaphysical doctrine mind moral law moral values moralists naturalistic fallacy nature object ontology person philosophy Plato pleasure point of view political position possible Principia Ethica principles priori element priori law problem pure question rational realised reality reason recognise regard relation religion rule seems sense simply social speculative Spinoza Stoicism suppose supreme teleology theism theory of knowledge things thinkers thought true truth ultimate universe utilitarian valid valuation
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Página 56 - One great advantage of the Christian religion is that it brings the great principle of the law of nature and nations — Love your neighbor as yourself, and do to others as you would that others should do to you, — to the knowledge, belief, and veneration of the whole people.
Página 73 - Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time...
Página 87 - ... et finem statuit cuppedinis atque timoris, exposuitque bonum summum, quo tendimus omnes, quid foret, atque viam monstravit, tramite parvo qua possemus ad id recto contendere cursu, quidve mali foret in rebus mortalibu...
Página 15 - It is actually the case that the number of square (finite) numbers is the same as the number of (finite) numbers...
Página 52 - Love is too young to know what conscience is; Yet who knows not conscience is born of love? Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss, Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove. For, thou betraying me, I do betray My nobler part to my gross body's treason; My soul doth tell my body that he may Triumph in love; flesh stays no farther reason, But, rising at thy name, doth point out...
Página 5 - Thus the law of contradiction is about things, and not merely about thoughts; and although belief in the law of contradiction is a thought, the law of contradiction itself is not a thought, but a fact concerning the things in the world. If this, which we believe when we believe the law of contradiction, were not true of the things in the world, the fact that we were compelled to think it true would not save the law of contradiction from being false; and this shows that the law is not a law of thought.
Página 4 - ... are more uncertain than the instances of them. We have now seen that there are propositions known a priori, and that among them are the propositions of logic and pure mathematics, as well as the fundamental propositions of ethics. The question which must next occupy us is this : How is it possible that there should be such knowledge ? And more particularly, how can there be knowledge of general propositions in cases where we have not examined all the instances, and indeed never can examine them...
Página 116 - If the whole of Natural Theology, as some people seem to maintain, resolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous, at least undefined proposition, That the cause or causes of order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence...
Página 55 - So act as to use humanity, both in your own person and in the person of every other, always at the same time as an end, never simply as a means.
Página 110 - ... cause or causes of order in the universe probably bear some analogy to human intelligence"; and that, even if the conclusion of a divine authorship be accepted, it does not permit inferences about the nature of the world, other than those which would follow directly from phenomena. Though natural theology may prove the existence of God, it sheds no light on...