Tertium Quid: Chapters on Various Disputed Questions, Volumen1K. Paul, Trench, and Company, 1887 |
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able action actually admit amount animals apply argument assertion axiom become brain certainly chance claim common complete conceptions connection consciousness course definite depends desire difficulty direct distinction doubt effect elements equally essentially ethical evidence existence experience external fact feel future give greater ground hand happiness hold human idea ideal imagination imply important impossible individual instinct interest kind knowledge less lives matter means ment mind mode moral natural never object once opinion organism pain particular perceive perception person physical positive possible practical present principle proposition prove question rational reality reason recognised reference regard relation religion represented result scientific seems sense side single sort suffering suggest supernatural supposed surely things thought tion true truth unity Universe whole worship
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Página 300 - Universe, as (eg) by saying that 'nature designed him to seek his own happiness,' - it then becomes relevant to point out to him that his happiness cannot be a more important part of Good, taken universally, than the equal happiness of any other person. And thus, starting...
Página 305 - ... is one of an indefinite number of similar self-evident propositions, which are described by saying that " things which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another"; but which do not require to be deduced from such general description in order to make them certain.
Página 309 - The important duties of the moralist, for he has important duties, arise from the confused state in which the greater part of mankind are with regard to their ethical first principles. The two questions each man has to ask himself are — What do I hold to be the ultimate ends of action ? and — If there is more than one such end, how do I estimate them in case of conflict...
Página 209 - Wilks is not equally satisfied, his instincts are better than his logic. Disagreeably in accordance, too, with this same formula are his remarks on scientific method, according to which ' the rocks are broken and put in the crucible, the water is submitted to analysis, the plant is dissected ; ' and ' in animal life the same method must be adopted to unlock the secrets of nature. The question of the animal being sensitive cannot alter the mode of investigation.
Página 337 - The feeling of personality, then, is a certain feeling of connection between faint images of past feelings ; and personality itself is the fact that such connections are set up, the property of the stream of feelings that part of it consists of links binding together faint reproductions of previous parts. It is thus a relative thing, a mode of complication of certain elements, and a property of the complex so produced. This complex is consciousness. When a stream of feelings is so compacted together...
Página 300 - If the Egoist strictly confines himself to stating his conviction that he ought to take his own happiness or pleasure as his ultimate end...
Página 340 - Matter is a mental picture in which mind-stuff is the thing represented. Reason, intelligence, and volition are properties of a complex which is made up of elements themselves not rational, not intelligent, not conscious.
Página 61 - ... The cares of livelihood would not absorb the mind, taming all impulse, clogging all flight, depressing the spirit with a base anxiety, smothering all social intercourse with languid fatigue, destroying men's interest in each other and making friendship impossible. Every one would worship, that is, every one would have some object of habitual contemplation, which would make life rich and bright to him, and of which he would think and speak with ardour.
Página 295 - Why should I do what I see to be right?" and in accounting for it most happily by showing that several different views of the ultimate reasonableness of conduct exist side by side in the thought of ordinary men, so that an answer from one point of view always allows the question to slip round again from another, he seems to imply that, could...
Página 133 - This mistake may lead not only to misapprehension but to genuine alarm ; and it seems to me to have been made by Mr. Mallock in the very beginning and foundation of his argument. He divides schools of thought into two grand classes, according as they dogmatically affirm or deny the existence of a personal God and the personal immortality of man : the affirmation, as we have seen, he calls religion, the denial atheism. He goes on to admit that between these poles of certainty there are all gradations...