A Short History of MoralsWatts, 1920 - 460 หน้า |
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absolute action alike ancient argued argument Aristotle Arminians avowed belief benevolence Bentham bias Buddhism Christian Church Cicero cited civilization claim common conception conduct Confucius creed criticism deity divine doctrine duty effect egoism Epictetus Epicurean Epicurus ethical evil evolution fact feeling Fichte free-will Freethought Greek ground happiness Hegel Hobbes Hobbes's human Hume Hutcheson idea ideal infanticide instinct intellectual intuitionism intuitive J. S. Mill justice Kant Kant's Leviathan means Mencius merely Mill moral sense moralists motive nature never opinion pantheism philosophic Plato pleasure political position practice precept principle priori problem professed proposition Protagoras punishments question rational reason reciprocity recognized regard religion religious right and wrong Roman rule savage scientific seek sentiment Shaftesbury simple slavery social society Socrates Spinoza spirit taboos theism theological theory things thought tion treatise truth utilitarian utility virtue Whewell whole
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หน้า 153 - Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter : Fear God, and keep his commandments ; for this is the whole duty of man : for God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
หน้า 150 - Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
หน้า 378 - ... pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things (which are as numerous in the utilitarian as in any other scheme) are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
หน้า 287 - IT is impossible for me, my brethren, upon our first meeting of this kind, to forbear lamenting with you, the general decay of religion in this nation; which is now observed by every one, and has been for some time the complaint of all serious persons. The influence of it...
หน้า 378 - ... even though knowing it to be attended with a greater amount of discontent, and would not resign it for any quantity of the other pleasure which their nature is capable 279 of, we are justified in ascribing to the preferred enjoyment a superiority in quality, so far outweighing quantity as to render it, in comparison, of small account.
หน้า 64 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer; with man it has often been otherwise.
หน้า 168 - If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
หน้า 213 - A Law of Nature (lex naturalis) is a precept or general rule found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.
หน้า 151 - Suppose the case of a man extensively conferring benefits on the people, and able to assist all, what would you say of him ? Might he be called perfectly virtuous...
หน้า 152 - Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.' CHAP. XVI. The Master said, The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!' CHAP. XVII. The Master said, 'Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;— this is knowledge.