Moral Science: A Compendium of EthicsD. Appleton, 1888 - 337 pages |
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Page 288 - he proposes (Chapter II.) to enquire, What Utilitarianism is ? This creed holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain ; by unhappiuess, pain, and the privation of pleasure.
Page 135 - of using his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature or life. Liberty properly means the absence of external impediments ; now a man may externally be hindered from doing all he would, but not from using what power is left him, according to His best reason and judgment.
Page 141 - last remark is, that these dictates of reason are improperly called laws, because ' law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others.' But when considered not as mere conclusions or theorems concerning the means of conservation and defence, but as delivered
Page 136 - self-defence he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself. This is the
Page 136 - things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself. This is the same as the Gospel precept, Do to others, &c. Laying down one's right to anything is divesting one's self of the liberty of hindering another in the exercise of
Page 245 - of reason and of law. Systems which attempt to question it, deal in sounds instead of sense, in caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light.' He defines Utility in various phrases, all coming to the
Page 293 - of cultivation. It is also susceptible, by the use of the external sanctions and the force of early impressions, of being cultivated in almost any direction, and of being perverted to absurdity and mischief. The basis of natural sentiment capable of supporting the utilitarian morality is to be found in the social feelings
Page 156 - set down exactly such as suited their several schools or churches. We can see from our experience how the belief in principles grows up. Doctrines, with no better original than the superstition of a nurse, or the authority of an old woman, may in course of time, and by the concurrence of neighbours, grow
Page 307 - Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct; and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery. ' Perhaps an analogy will most clearly show my meaning. Daring its early stages, planetary Astronomy consisted