An Adventure In Moral PhilosophyRoutledge, 20. jul. 2020 - 288 sider Originally published in 1926, this book develops the Socratic thesis that morality is intelligence, that morality is not a matter of standards, laws and principles but in knowing what we do – in living self-consciously. The book develops this central theme in its bearings upon logic and science, art and religion and suggests that both intelligence and morality stand for much more than appears first obvious. |
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... questions of orthodoxy. His mind is working upon a very different question: not whether the object of his criticism, novel, poem, picture, or symphony, is in any sense “right” or “wrong”, orthodox or heterodox, but is it interesting?
... questions of orthodoxy. His mind is working upon a very different question: not whether the object of his criticism, novel, poem, picture, or symphony, is in any sense “right” or “wrong”, orthodox or heterodox, but is it interesting?
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... mind of the average undergraduate of an American college1 who has just registered his name for the next term's course? Something like this, I venture. Ethics, as he understands it, is “a study of right conduct”. The purpose of the ...
... mind of the average undergraduate of an American college1 who has just registered his name for the next term's course? Something like this, I venture. Ethics, as he understands it, is “a study of right conduct”. The purpose of the ...
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... mind of the collector. But if it still be suggested that he is “playing with abstractions”, then I shall ask to be introduced to something really concrete. And as for the interest of the collection—I do not doubt that glaciers and sea ...
... mind of the collector. But if it still be suggested that he is “playing with abstractions”, then I shall ask to be introduced to something really concrete. And as for the interest of the collection—I do not doubt that glaciers and sea ...
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... mind. One of my most instructive specimens of this kind is a conversation between a Hindoo gentleman and a Christian lady, each of whom found in the other a true type of “heathen”. The exasperated Hindoo gentleman guessed very well how ...
... mind. One of my most instructive specimens of this kind is a conversation between a Hindoo gentleman and a Christian lady, each of whom found in the other a true type of “heathen”. The exasperated Hindoo gentleman guessed very well how ...
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... mind of the naturalistic moralist; and it is precisely this power of sympathetic imagination —the power of seeing others as they see themselves and ourselves as others see us—that measures one's capacity as a moralist and also ...
... mind of the naturalistic moralist; and it is precisely this power of sympathetic imagination —the power of seeing others as they see themselves and ourselves as others see us—that measures one's capacity as a moralist and also ...
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