I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are... Evolutionism and Idealism in Ethics - Página 20de Frederick Cohn - 1909 - 69 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1891 - 580 páginas
...lawgiver, he affirms of the ethical science which he has evolved out of his own consciousness that ' its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct...and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimate of happiness or misery. ' f Are ' Spencer, p. 166. ' Indefinite judgment of qualities,' and... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1868 - 904 páginas
...and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its...conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiuess or misery. ' Perhaps an analogy will most clearly show my meaning. Daring its early stages,... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1868 - 902 páginas
...what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiaess. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and are to be conformed to iirespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery. ' Perhaps an analogy will most clearly... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1869 - 348 páginas
...and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its...irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery. * Perhaps an analogy will most clearly show my meaning. During its early stages, planetary Astronomy... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1869 - 350 páginas
...what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce nnhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized...irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery. ' Perhaps on analogy will most clearly show my meaning. During its early stages, planetary Astronomy... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1869 - 364 páginas
...tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiaess. Having done this, its deductions uro to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and are to be...irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery. 'Perhaps an analogy will most clearly show my meaning, During its early stages, planetary Astronomy... | |
| 1870 - 440 páginas
...conduct are detrimental and others beneficial. These deductions are to be taken as laws of conduct, and to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery. Alexander Bain identifies conscience with education under authority. He holds that selfapproval and... | |
| 1871 - 834 páginas
...happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to bo recognised as laws of conduct ; and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery.." Nor is this the only enunciation of what I conceive to be the primary basis of morals, contained in... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1871 - 272 páginas
...what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce- lmhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and aro to bo conformed to irrespective of a dircct estimation of happiness or misery." Nor is this the... | |
| 1871 - 830 páginas
...and tho conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognised as laws of conduct ; and are to he conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness... | |
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