The Moral & Social Significance of the Conception of PersonalityClarendon Press, 1921 - 159 páginas |
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Página 42
... secure , and that any action which secures them will be good ; best of all being of course the action that secures the greatest amount of good . What these good things are has been a matter of long discussion . In the earliest form of ...
... secure , and that any action which secures them will be good ; best of all being of course the action that secures the greatest amount of good . What these good things are has been a matter of long discussion . In the earliest form of ...
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... secure an additional pleasure , the pleasure of benevolence in giving up something for another . If we once embark on these subtleties , could it not be urged that my friend might have had the additional benevo- lent pleasure of ...
... secure an additional pleasure , the pleasure of benevolence in giving up something for another . If we once embark on these subtleties , could it not be urged that my friend might have had the additional benevo- lent pleasure of ...
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... secure some desirable object but in the sense of personal devotion towards persons . Kant's conception of the good will has often been criticised as barren and devoid of content . But it is not to be amended simply by providing the will ...
... secure some desirable object but in the sense of personal devotion towards persons . Kant's conception of the good will has often been criticised as barren and devoid of content . But it is not to be amended simply by providing the will ...
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... secure in co - operation . For the two sides of his nature , practical and contemplative alike , society is thus necessary . But it by no means follows that any given society with its peculiar division of labour between its members is ...
... secure in co - operation . For the two sides of his nature , practical and contemplative alike , society is thus necessary . But it by no means follows that any given society with its peculiar division of labour between its members is ...
Página 88
... secure the happiness and welfare of individuals instead of acknowledging that they are themselves if not persons then greater and better than persons , with a life of their own to whose goodness it is the only privilege of individual ...
... secure the happiness and welfare of individuals instead of acknowledging that they are themselves if not persons then greater and better than persons , with a life of their own to whose goodness it is the only privilege of individual ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
absolute action activities admit Aristotle artist beauty become better called citizen complete condition conduct conscious consider creature definite degree of coherence desire devotion difficulty discussion dispositions distinction Divine Comedy division of labour doctrine duties economic elements enjoyment equally ethical evil exaltation exist expression fact fact law feeling finite persons forms of society further harmony Hegel Hegelian highest human ideal imperfect importance impulse and emotion individual infinite interests John Grote kind knowledge labour legal fiction less limitation live man's means merely mind moral value moralist Morton Prince narrow nature necessary object organization ourselves perfect philosophy Plato pleasure political possess possible powers problem produced question realized reason regard relation secure seems self-conscious self-realization sense simply social spirit suppose supreme theory theory of conduct things thinkers thought tion true truth unity universal universal philosophies urge whole
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Página 120 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 120 - As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value ; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can.
Página 120 - ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.
Página 62 - I went in curiosity for a day. I stayed for a week, held spell-bound by the charm and ease of everything, by the middle-class paradise, without a sin, without a victim, without a blot, without a tear. And yet what was my own astonishment, on emerging into the dark and wicked world again, to catch myself quite unexpectedly and involuntarily saying: "Ouf! what a relief! Now for something primordial and savage, even though it were as bad as an Armenian massacre, to set the balance straight again.
Página 35 - For in point of contents, thought is only true in proportion as it sinks itself in the facts ; and in point of form it is no private or particular state or act of the subject, but rather that attitude of consciousness where the abstract self, freed from all the special limitations to which its ordinary states or qualities are liable, restricts itself to that universal action in which it is identical with all individuals.
Página 92 - A State that is truly free ought not to suffer within its bosom any corporation, not even such as, being dedicated to public instruction, have merited well of the country.
Página 105 - And they placed them on the heavenly tablets, each had thirteen weeks; from one to another (passed) their memorial, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth.
Página 92 - ... concerned with ecclesiastical liberty, but at the same time universal in application, are some of the essays by Acton in the volume on 'Freedom'. That the problem is really concerned with the liberty alike of the individual and of the corporate society is best proved by such words as those of M.
Página 101 - Nur in Zeiten, wo die Wirklichkeit eine hohle geist- und haltungslose Existenz ist, mag es dem Individuum gestattet sein, aus der wirklichen in die innerliche Lebendigkeit zurückzufliehen.
Página 102 - Those," he held, "who cannot be enthusiastic in the study of society as it is, would not be so in the study of a better society if they had it. 'Here or nowhere is your America.