Life and the Conditions of Survival: The Physical Basis of Ethics, Sociology and ReligionC.H. Kerr, 1895 - 447 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 52
Página iii
... actions , and no longer delivers man over to the blind guidance of an exclusively subjective moni- tor - the " Mystic Ought " -which renders unattainable an intelligent consensus as to the true end of human en- deavor . Following the ...
... actions , and no longer delivers man over to the blind guidance of an exclusively subjective moni- tor - the " Mystic Ought " -which renders unattainable an intelligent consensus as to the true end of human en- deavor . Following the ...
Página 11
... action is instinctive rather than volitional , or volitional in the sense of striving for social ends only because they are seen to promote individual safety and happiness . With no necessity for assumption , however , seeing the ...
... action is instinctive rather than volitional , or volitional in the sense of striving for social ends only because they are seen to promote individual safety and happiness . With no necessity for assumption , however , seeing the ...
Página 12
... actions , like those regulating the social relations of brutes and savages , however beneficent in their results ... action are both objective and subjective ; either one alone is illusory and unsat- isfactory . Unless rightly guided ...
... actions , like those regulating the social relations of brutes and savages , however beneficent in their results ... action are both objective and subjective ; either one alone is illusory and unsat- isfactory . Unless rightly guided ...
Página 18
... action and ethical advancement . Nor does it even imply the negation of individual freedom in any rational , philosophical sense , since the motive which controls his action is not external to the man but the outcome of his own inherent ...
... action and ethical advancement . Nor does it even imply the negation of individual freedom in any rational , philosophical sense , since the motive which controls his action is not external to the man but the outcome of his own inherent ...
Página 19
... action of the character of true external compulsion . This , however , is a purely metaphysical and unscientific conception . It must be evident , on reflection , that the only real constraint which the moral nature of the individual ...
... action of the character of true external compulsion . This , however , is a purely metaphysical and unscientific conception . It must be evident , on reflection , that the only real constraint which the moral nature of the individual ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Life and the Conditions of Survival, the Physical Basis of Ethics, Sociology ... Association Brooklyn Ethical Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
action ages anagenetic animals atmosphere become birds body brain Calories carbon carbon dioxide carbonic acid cause character chemical chemical elements Christianity church civilization clothing Cosmic Philosophy creatures culture dietaries disease doctrine earth elements energy environment ergy ethical evil evolution evolutionary existence external fact force forms germs growth habit hand heat human ical idea increase individual instinct intellectual Jesus labor less living locomotion material matter means ment mind modern molar monism moral nations natural selection nature nitrogen organic origin Origin of Species ornament oxygen perfect physical plants possible present primitive principle produced Professor progress protein Protestantism protoplasm race radiant energy relations religion religious result says shelter social society sociology soil solar soul structure struggle sun's supply survival things thought tion to-day true universe unsanitary vegetable whole Yahweh
Pasajes populares
Página 323 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Página 238 - But human creatures' lives ! Stitch, stitch, stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt. Sewing at once, with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt ! But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
Página 238 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread, — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sang the
Página 250 - There with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own...
Página 238 - Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "O! Men, with Sisters dear! O! Men! with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures
Página 354 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Página 323 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.
Página 319 - ... individual case. In the main, however, all expert opinion would agree that abrupt acquisition of the new habit is the best way, if there be a real possibility of carrying it out. We must be careful not to give the will so stiff a task as to insure its defeat at the very outset; but, provided one can stand it, a sharp period of suffering, and then a free time, is the best thing to aim at...
Página 319 - The peculiarity of the moral habits, contradistinguishing them from the intellectual acquisitions, is the presence of two hostile powers, one to be gradually raised into the ascendant over the other. It is necessary, above all things, in such a situation, never to lose a battle. Every gain on the wrong side undoes the effect of many conquests on the right.
Página 353 - Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be...