The term, general good, may be defined as the rearing of the greatest number of individuals in full vigour and health, with all their faculties perfect, under the conditions to which they are subjected. The Academy - Página 1781871Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry, Steven T. Katz - 1988 - 356 páginas
...'moral views' had actually developed in terms of a 'general good' of the community, and he defined this as 'the means by which the greatest possible number...health, with all their faculties perfect, under the 6 conditions to which they are exposed'.18 Nevertheless, this natural discovery of 'good' had its limits.... | |
| Carl N. Degler - 1992 - 413 páginas
...called "the general good," a term he defined as the "rearing of the greatest number of individuals in full vigour and health, with all their faculties perfect, under the conditions to which they are subjected." (In the late twentieth century, ethologists and sociobiologists would label this definition... | |
| Misia Landau - 1993 - 222 páginas
...tribe — for Darwin defines the general good as "the rearing of the greatest number of individuals in full vigour and health, with all their faculties perfect, under the conditions to which they are subjected" — but it does not necessarily raise the moral excellence of a tribe's individual members.... | |
| Peter Loptson - 1998 - 588 páginas
...however, certainly been developed for the general good of the community. The term, general good, may be defined as the means by which the greatest possible...perfect, under the conditions to which they are exposed. As the social instincts both of man and the lower animals have no doubt been developed by the same... | |
| Ronald L. Numbers, John Stenhouse - 1999 - 316 páginas
...Darwin's definition of social progress as "the rearing of the greatest number of individuals in full vigor and health, with all their faculties perfect under the conditions to which they are subjected." 14 The naturalist Joseph LeConte, a Protestant exponent of theistic evolution, could have... | |
| Burton F. Porter - 2001 - 336 páginas
...wrote, "The term, general good, may be defined as the rearing of the greatest number of individuals in full vigour and health, with all their faculties perfect, under the conditions to which they are subjected."4 Spencer then went on to say that rearing and preserving healthy, vigorous individuals... | |
| John Offer - 2000 - 416 páginas
...or "welfare"; and this, again, "may be defined as the rearing of the greatest number of individuals in full vigour and health, with all their faculties perfect, under the conditions to which they are subjected"; or, in the words of Mr. Spencer, as "the greatest totality of life in self, in offspring... | |
| Bart Schultz - 2002 - 444 páginas
...general happiness," where "general good [is] defined as the rearing of the greatest number of individuals in full vigour and health, with all their faculties perfect, under the conditions to which they are subjected" (Descent of Man, chap. 4, par. 40; Modern Library ed., p. 490). Darwin added that when a... | |
| Lawrence C. Becker - 2003 - 220 páginas
...general happiness," where "general good [is] defined as the rearing of the greatest number of individuals in full vigour and health, with all their faculties perfect, under the conditions to which they are subjected" (Descent). Darwin added that when a person "risks his life to save that of a fellowcreature,... | |
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