Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of EthicsHoughton Mifflin, 1921 - 455 páginas This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. |
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... tend to preserve life is a factor of growing importance in insuring movement in this same direc- tion . Altogether , moral progress consists primarily in an increasing adaptation of codes to the preservation of life . ( 2 ) Morality ...
... tend to preserve life is a factor of growing importance in insuring movement in this same direc- tion . Altogether , moral progress consists primarily in an increasing adaptation of codes to the preservation of life . ( 2 ) Morality ...
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... tends to rob the glory from any- thing to analyze it into its parts and study the natural causes that produced it . The loveliest painting is but a mess of pigments to the microscope , the loveliest face but a mess of cells and hairs ...
... tends to rob the glory from any- thing to analyze it into its parts and study the natural causes that produced it . The loveliest painting is but a mess of pigments to the microscope , the loveliest face but a mess of cells and hairs ...
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... tend at times to awaken a rebellious spirit in the hot - headed . So a perpetual antinomy would exist between internal impulse and external constraint , were it not that that external constraint is reflected within the individual mind ...
... tend at times to awaken a rebellious spirit in the hot - headed . So a perpetual antinomy would exist between internal impulse and external constraint , were it not that that external constraint is reflected within the individual mind ...
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... tends to become more individual and divergent , until we find , in civilized life , a man standing out for con- science ' sake against the opinion of the world . The individ- ualization of conscience , with the consequent clash of ...
... tends to become more individual and divergent , until we find , in civilized life , a man standing out for con- science ' sake against the opinion of the world . The individ- ualization of conscience , with the consequent clash of ...
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... freer play . Especially would the more observant , the more traveled , the more reflective , tend to vary from the ideals of their neighbors . ( 5 ) In various other ways , apart from THE INDIVIDUALIZING OF CONSCIENCE.
... freer play . Especially would the more observant , the more traveled , the more reflective , tend to vary from the ideals of their neighbors . ( 5 ) In various other ways , apart from THE INDIVIDUALIZING OF CONSCIENCE.
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Página 293 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Página 18 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy: but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you...
Página 102 - Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a universal law of nature.
Página 187 - If the poor and humble toil that we have Food, must not the high and glorious toil for him in return, that he have Light, have Guidance, Freedom, Immortality? These two in all their degrees, I honour : all else is chaff and dust, which let the wind blow whither it listeth.
Página 162 - Whatever power such a being may have over me, there is one thing which he shall not do : he shall not compel me to worship him. I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
Página 252 - But what do you think of supporting a cause which you know to be bad?" JOHNSON. " Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly ; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a...
Página 158 - ... and a lady-killer, as well as a philosopher; a philanthropist, statesman, warrior, and African explorer, as well as a ' tone-poet ' and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint's; the...
Página 284 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.
Página 311 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea. I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known, - cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Página 285 - Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.