The Moral & Social Significance of the Conception of PersonalityClarendon Press, 1921 - 159 páginas |
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... finite individual must fail , and that the divergence between personal development and social duty is in some sense . a real fact however badly ordinary thought may state it . The views thus to be maintained are perhaps ' individualist ...
... finite individual must fail , and that the divergence between personal development and social duty is in some sense . a real fact however badly ordinary thought may state it . The views thus to be maintained are perhaps ' individualist ...
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... finite persons . This view is contrary to any which would maintain that perfection could be an attribute only of an impersonal reality or of an infinite person . Far from connecting finitude with evil , this theory holds that none.but ...
... finite persons . This view is contrary to any which would maintain that perfection could be an attribute only of an impersonal reality or of an infinite person . Far from connecting finitude with evil , this theory holds that none.but ...
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... finite self must be always imperfect . Let us examine the first point . It is contended that since a finite person could not be completely self- determined it must be imperfect . If there is anything really external to it , this thing ...
... finite self must be always imperfect . Let us examine the first point . It is contended that since a finite person could not be completely self- determined it must be imperfect . If there is anything really external to it , this thing ...
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... Finite persons , he continues , are subject to the external spatial influence of nature on the one hand , and on the other to the temporal conditions which make it impossible for us even at any one moment wholly to possess ourselves ...
... Finite persons , he continues , are subject to the external spatial influence of nature on the one hand , and on the other to the temporal conditions which make it impossible for us even at any one moment wholly to possess ourselves ...
Página 28
... finite spirit develops its Self - consciousness only ' through influences that come to it from the World - whole with which it is not identical ' , and so through its opposition to an alien being : ( 3 ) that this , however ...
... finite spirit develops its Self - consciousness only ' through influences that come to it from the World - whole with which it is not identical ' , and so through its opposition to an alien being : ( 3 ) that this , however ...
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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.