An Adventure in Moral PhilosophyMethuen, 1926 - 276 sider |
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Side 3
... hand , to be thoughtful , always to know what you are doing , is to be critical ; to live , not by habit and instinct , but by judgment and choice . For this conception of morality I might perhaps offer reputable authority by quoting ...
... hand , to be thoughtful , always to know what you are doing , is to be critical ; to live , not by habit and instinct , but by judgment and choice . For this conception of morality I might perhaps offer reputable authority by quoting ...
Side 6
... hand it seems that morality is the fulfilment of an obligation ( in the traditional literature of ethics " moral " and " obligation " are the two words most often conjoined ) ; on the other hand it seems that moral action must be freely ...
... hand it seems that morality is the fulfilment of an obligation ( in the traditional literature of ethics " moral " and " obligation " are the two words most often conjoined ) ; on the other hand it seems that moral action must be freely ...
Side 13
... hand , is comparatively little interested in the history of science . The history of science is not science but only gossip about science - anti- quarian and polite . From the scientific point of view the persons composing the ...
... hand , is comparatively little interested in the history of science . The history of science is not science but only gossip about science - anti- quarian and polite . From the scientific point of view the persons composing the ...
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... hand it is doubtless a realization of the indeterminately " moral " quality of the conscious fact that has led the more advanced of scientific psychologists to abandon " psychology " and content them- selves with a description of human ...
... hand it is doubtless a realization of the indeterminately " moral " quality of the conscious fact that has led the more advanced of scientific psychologists to abandon " psychology " and content them- selves with a description of human ...
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... hand , does he very carefully examine the moral quality of his own cherished attitude of " reserve " . He is content to attribute the Semitic attitude to the want of a proper in the last analysis , morally proper - dignity . The ...
... hand , does he very carefully examine the moral quality of his own cherished attitude of " reserve " . He is content to attribute the Semitic attitude to the want of a proper in the last analysis , morally proper - dignity . The ...
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Side 251 - 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 251 - 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 160 - I have just said, is objective — and it is objectively an experience — so far as it is critical ; and this means that it is cognizant — objectively cognizant — of other experiences. Now when the term "objective" is used by philosophers and men of science it is likely to suggest a set of rules formulated on behalf of logic or of scientific method. But these rules are nothing but more or less ineffectual attempts to define the experience of objectivity ; an experience suggested more directly...
Side 99 - 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 180 - I have thought it best to reprint it here, with some slight changes which bring it closer to my original meaning. I have dealt more fully in Marius the Epicurean with the thoughts suggested by it.
Side 273 - For the essence of humanism is that 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 beside 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.
Side 257 - I firmly disbelieve, myself, that our human experience is the highest form of experience extant in the universe. I believe rather that we stand in much the same relation to the whole of the universe as our canine and feline pets do to the whole of human life. They inhabit our drawingrooms and libraries.
Side 250 - 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.
Side 90 - We are in a non-moral condition whenever we want anything intensely", ie, absolutely, so as to limit the possibilities of choice. So far I follow him ; and I should take this to mean that a man's life is imperfectly moral so far as he sacrifices any part of himself past or present. But now it seems, as I understand Professor Dewey (and I will not claim to understand him finally), that for him morality does consist precisely in the constant sacrifice of the past — to the future or to the present....
Side 104 - 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.