Moral Philosophy: The Critical View of LifeL. MacVeagh, The Dial Press, 1925 - 320 sider |
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Side ii
... ethics " , is derived from a term meaning " custom " . With all of these distinctions , how- ever described , I am more or less in agreement . But to that against which the discrimination is made I will not give the name of " morality ...
... ethics " , is derived from a term meaning " custom " . With all of these distinctions , how- ever described , I am more or less in agreement . But to that against which the discrimination is made I will not give the name of " morality ...
Side 2
... ethics " , is derived from a term meaning " custom " . With all of these distinctions , how- ever described , I am more or less in agreement . But to that against which the discrimination is made I will not give the name of " morality ...
... ethics " , is derived from a term meaning " custom " . With all of these distinctions , how- ever described , I am more or less in agreement . But to that against which the discrimination is made I will not give the name of " morality ...
Side 5
... ethical theories : absolutistic , or authoritarian theories , in which morality is based upon authority , or law , assumed to be superior to and binding upon human choice ; and what I shall call humanistic , or libertarian theories , in ...
... ethical theories : absolutistic , or authoritarian theories , in which morality is based upon authority , or law , assumed to be superior to and binding upon human choice ; and what I shall call humanistic , or libertarian theories , in ...
Side 7
... ethics " writ large " ) corresponding to the divergence of ethical theory ; to the difference , namely , between the absolutistic theory , embodied in the popular conception of " the German state " , and the theories variously described ...
... ethics " writ large " ) corresponding to the divergence of ethical theory ; to the difference , namely , between the absolutistic theory , embodied in the popular conception of " the German state " , and the theories variously described ...
Side 9
... ethics , or discussions of the meaning and function of ethics , are supposed to be ( as they often are ) as remote from a productive analysis of morality as surveying is from farming ; the idea being that it is one thing to plot the ...
... ethics , or discussions of the meaning and function of ethics , are supposed to be ( as they often are ) as remote from a productive analysis of morality as surveying is from farming ; the idea being that it is one thing to plot the ...
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Side 298 - I should (said He) Bestow this jewel also on My creature, He would adore My gifts instead of Me, And rest in nature, not the God of nature : So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness : Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to My breast.
Side 281 - Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all his race the slow sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day...
Side 281 - Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty; thoughts that ennoble his little day; disdaining the coward| terrors of the slave of Fate, to worship at the shrine that his own hands have built; undismayed by the empire of chance, to preserve a mind free from the wanton tyranny that rules...
Side 105 - For the essence of humanism is that one belief of which he seems never to have doubted, that nothing which has ever interested living men and women can wholly lose its vitality — no language they have spoken nor oracle by which they have hushed their voices, no dream which has once been entertained by actual human minds, nothing about which they have ever been passionate or expended time and zeal, (pp.
Side 99 - Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
Side 200 - Conclusion' was omitted in the second edition of this book, as I conceived it might possibly mislead some of those young men into whose hands it might fall.
Side 210 - ... only sustain my contention that no temporary friendship can be enjoyed except as you forget its temporary character. The motive of friendship is very deeply involved with the motive of immortality, of religion, and of life itself. Just as the thought of the finitude of friendship chills the ardour of friendship so does the thought of death dissipate the zest for life. Therefore death is not mentioned in polite society. James points out that no one can think steadily of his own death. Suppose...
Side 110 - Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
Side 266 - To anyone who has tried to live in sympathy with the Greek philosophers, the suggestion that they were " intellectualists " must seem ludicrous. On the contrary, Greek philosophy is based on the faith that reality is divine, and that the one thing needful is for the soul, which is akin to the divine, to enter into communion with it.
Side 210 - ... tendencies, these quick and intense reasoners suppose that I am vacillating in my own opinions. My own opinions are a minor matter, and there was usually no need, for the task in hand, that I should put them forward ; yet as a matter of fact, since I reached the age of manhood, they have not changed. In my adolescence I thought this earthly life (not unintelligibly, considering what I had then seen and heard of it) a most hideous thing, and I was not disinclined to dismiss it as an illusion,...