From Epicurus to Christ: A Study in the Principles of PersonalityMacmillan, 1904 - 285 من الصفحات |
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... better than turn to the sensible pages of Herbert Spencer's " Data of Ethics . " " The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions is the first requisite to 10 FROM EPICURUS TO CHRIST.
... better than turn to the sensible pages of Herbert Spencer's " Data of Ethics . " " The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions is the first requisite to 10 FROM EPICURUS TO CHRIST.
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... individuals . " Bounding out of bed after an unbroken sleep , singing or whistling as he dresses , coming down with beaming face ready to laugh on the smallest provocation , the healthy man of high powers , conscious of past successes ...
... individuals . " Bounding out of bed after an unbroken sleep , singing or whistling as he dresses , coming down with beaming face ready to laugh on the smallest provocation , the healthy man of high powers , conscious of past successes ...
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... individuals like the first the happiness will be relatively great , while in one composed of indi- viduals like the last there will be relatively little happiness , or rather much misery ; it must be ad- mitted that conduct causing the ...
... individuals like the first the happiness will be relatively great , while in one composed of indi- viduals like the last there will be relatively little happiness , or rather much misery ; it must be ad- mitted that conduct causing the ...
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... individual retains those powers which make altruistic activities possible . The individual who is inadequately egoistic loses more or less of his ability to be altruistic . The truth of the one proposition is self - evident ; and the ...
... individual retains those powers which make altruistic activities possible . The individual who is inadequately egoistic loses more or less of his ability to be altruistic . The truth of the one proposition is self - evident ; and the ...
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... individual . Foot - ball , for instance , gives the student of to - day the essential joy in combat of his barbarian ancestors , with the modern field - marshal's delight in subtle tragedy thrown in . Base - ball gives the intense zest ...
... individual . Foot - ball , for instance , gives the student of to - day the essential joy in combat of his barbarian ancestors , with the modern field - marshal's delight in subtle tragedy thrown in . Base - ball gives the intense zest ...
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الصفحة 100 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
الصفحة 54 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
الصفحة 63 - I must again repeat what the assailants of utilitarianism seldom have the justice to acknowledge, that the happiness which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct is not the agent's own happiness but that of all concerned. As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.
الصفحة 63 - ... the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This, however, being a fact, we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good : that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons.
الصفحة 198 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
الصفحة 138 - Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, — no, nor the human race, as I believe, — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
الصفحة 16 - A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
الصفحة 16 - I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell : And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd, " I Myself am Heav'n and Hell...
الصفحة 56 - Now, it is an unquestionable fact, that those who are equally acquainted with, and equally capable of appreciating and enjoying both, do give a most marked preference to the manner of existence which employs their higher faculties.
الصفحة 85 - NOTHING can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good without qualification, except a Good Will.