Moral Philosophy: The Critical View of LifeL. MacVeagh, The Dial Press, 1925 - 320 sider |
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... assume also that he will agree with me , in the end if not in the beginning , in using the term " morality " to ... assumed no special obligation of excellence . But when he claims to be more moral than I am , I must protest - at least ...
... assume also that he will agree with me , in the end if not in the beginning , in using the term " morality " to ... assumed no special obligation of excellence . But when he claims to be more moral than I am , I must protest - at least ...
Side 2
... assumed by him to be better . That something , that most important thing in life , I take to be the only true meaning of " morality " . I make this point at the outset because there are some persons , in no sense immoral persons , for ...
... assumed by him to be better . That something , that most important thing in life , I take to be the only true meaning of " morality " . I make this point at the outset because there are some persons , in no sense immoral persons , for ...
Side 5
... assumed to be superior to and binding upon human choice ; and what I shall call humanistic , or libertarian theories , in which morality is derived from human nature and human choice . Stoicism marks the direction of absolutistic theor ...
... assumed to be superior to and binding upon human choice ; and what I shall call humanistic , or libertarian theories , in which morality is derived from human nature and human choice . Stoicism marks the direction of absolutistic theor ...
Side 8
... assumed to be morally prior to that of the choices and judgments of individual men and to furnish the criterion by which to measure the moral validity of these judgments . My conception of morality rejects all such moral absolutes . A ...
... assumed to be morally prior to that of the choices and judgments of individual men and to furnish the criterion by which to measure the moral validity of these judgments . My conception of morality rejects all such moral absolutes . A ...
Side 20
... assume the responsibility of cultivating moral insight and undertake to use it as a method of psy- chology . The offer is not likely to be accepted . Stated more formally , the issue is as follows . The traditional distinction between ...
... assume the responsibility of cultivating moral insight and undertake to use it as a method of psy- chology . The offer is not likely to be accepted . Stated more formally , the issue is as follows . The traditional distinction between ...
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aesthetic animal answer Aristotle artist authoritarian authority beauty Bishop Butler categorical imperative chapter conceive conception consciousness criticism Croce difference distinction divine embodied enjoy enjoyment Epicurean Epicurus ethics experience expression fact George Eliot grasp Greek honest human nature idea imagination impression insight intelligence interesting J. S. Mill James Fitzjames Stephen Kant knowledge least less living logic Lucretius mark matter means meliorists merely mind moral philosophy moral world moralist motive never objective obligation order of reverence ordered society orthodox morality perhaps persons picture Plato point of view possible pragmatic attitude present problem Professor Dewey question reality reflective relation religion reverence scientific seems self-conscious sense significance simple social Socrates soul spirit stand standard suggest suppose suspect T. H. Green taste telligence theory things thought tion tradition true truth utilitarian utility virtue wonder words
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Side 291 - 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 291 - 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 115 - 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 109 - 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 120 - 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 220 - I regretted the fact and now I hugely enjoy it, I have never been able to elude the recurring, invincible, and ironic conviction that whenever I or any other person feign to be living in any of those non-natural worlds, we are simply dreaming awake."1 "And now I hugely enjoy it.
Side 64 - ... fraternity-men, the non-Greeks (perhaps half or more of the college), are distinguished as " barbarians ". Membership in a fraternity is supposed to mark a mystical bond of union — with a corresponding exclusion. At any rate it is the man's fraternity that chiefly determines his social affiliations. authority is therefore the authority of the Laws of Nature, and for the majesty of God he substitutes the majesty of the Species. His lead is followed by the scientific anthropologist, who discovers...
Side 220 - ... (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, for which perhaps the Catholic epic might be substituted to advantage, as conforming better to the impulses of the soul; and later I liked to regard all systems as alternative illusions for the solipsist; but neither solipsism nor Catholicism were ever anything to me but theoretic poses or possibilities; vistas for the imagination, never convictions....
Side 291 - ... 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; 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...
Side 290 - 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. It was in truth an effort to satisfy what we call the religious instinct.