Moral Philosophy: Or, Ethics and Natural LawLongmans, Green, and Company, 1908 - 378 páginas |
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according action animal answer Aristotle body bound brute called capital punishment charity circumstances civil command commutative justice concupiscible conscience consequences contemplation contract corp creature danger death delight desire distributive justice Divine duel duty effect end in view Eternal Law Ethics fortitude George Grote golden mean habit Hedonism heterocentric honour human acts human nature Ia 2æ ignorance individual intellectual intellectual virtue judgment kill labour last end live Magnanimous man's marriage matter ment mind modern moral virtue Natural Law necessary negative duty neighbour ness never object obligation offended passion perfect happiness person philosophy physical Plato pleasure polity polyandry polygamy principle Probabilism proper prudence punishment question rational Readings.-St reason secret self-defence sense sensitive appetite social society soul speak synderesis Temperance thing Thomas says Thos tion truth usury Utilitarianism vengeance voluntary word worship wrong
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Página 296 - To this war of every man, against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no injustice.
Página 296 - Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war, as is of every man against every man.
Página 383 - Cheap Edition, Crown 8vo. 3s. 6<f. Tracts, i. Dissertatiunculae. 2. On the Text of the Seven Epistles of St. Ignatius. 3. Doctrinal Causes of Arianism. 4. Apollinarianism. 5. St. Cyril's Formula. 6.
Página 297 - They are qualities that relate to men in society, not in solitude. It is consequent also to the same condition that there be no propriety, no dominion, no ' mine' and ' thine' distinct, but only that to be every man's that he can get, and for so long as he can keep it.
Página 296 - Again, men have no pleasure (but on the contrary a great deal of grief) in keeping company where there is no power able to overawe them all.
Página 302 - This done, the multitude so united in one person, is called a COMMONWEALTH, in Latin CIVITAS. This is the generation of that great LEVIATHAN, or rather, to speak more reverently, of that mortal god, to which we owe under the immortal God, our peace and defence.
Página 16 - And now, as he looked and saw the whole Hellespont covered with the vessels of his fleet, and all the shore and every plain about Abydos as full as possible of men, Xerxes congratulated himself on his good fortune ; but after a little while, he wept.
Página 235 - Those two arts of cunning are like the alloy mingled with pure ore. A little is necessary, and will not debase the coin below its proper standard ; but if...
Página 53 - I will omit much usual declamation on the dignity and capacity of our nature ; the superiority of the soul to the body, of the rational to the animal part of our constitution ; upon the worthiness, refinement, and delicacy of some satisfactions, or the meanness, grossness, and sensuality of others ; because I hold that pleasures differ in nothing but in continuance and intensity...
Página 296 - In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty,...