Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical, Том 3William V. Spencer, 1864 - 455 стор. |
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... present attitude of hostility . It was because they did not believe , as he professes to do , that the best and wisest of governments had been overthrown by a touch ; the mature opinion of the whole country being in its favor . That ...
... present attitude of hostility . It was because they did not believe , as he professes to do , that the best and wisest of governments had been overthrown by a touch ; the mature opinion of the whole country being in its favor . That ...
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... present condition of the world . No government can now expect to be permanent , unless it guarantees prog- ress as well as order ; nor can it continue really to secure order , unless it promotes progress . It can go on , as yet , with ...
... present condition of the world . No government can now expect to be permanent , unless it guarantees prog- ress as well as order ; nor can it continue really to secure order , unless it promotes progress . It can go on , as yet , with ...
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... present moment . This responsibility we will resign to no one but to the nation itself . The Republic must not , and will not , act in contradiction to its professions : the credit of its word is at stake , and shall never be forfeited ...
... present moment . This responsibility we will resign to no one but to the nation itself . The Republic must not , and will not , act in contradiction to its professions : the credit of its word is at stake , and shall never be forfeited ...
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... present age are not those of territorial attack and defence , but of liberty , just government , and sympathy of opinion . For this state of things , what is called the law of nations was not made ; and in no state of things at all ...
... present age are not those of territorial attack and defence , but of liberty , just government , and sympathy of opinion . For this state of things , what is called the law of nations was not made ; and in no state of things at all ...
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... almost complete renovation must take place in some of the most rooted opinions and feelings of the present race of mankind . The majority , both of THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1848 the upholders of old things AND ITS ASSAILANTS . 57.
... almost complete renovation must take place in some of the most rooted opinions and feelings of the present race of mankind . The majority , both of THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1848 the upholders of old things AND ITS ASSAILANTS . 57.
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Сторінка 310 - 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.
Сторінка 165 - The day may come, when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may come one day to be recognized, that the number of the legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum, are...
Сторінка 311 - ... 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.
Сторінка 316 - Neither pains nor pleasures are homogeneous, and pain is always heterogeneous with pleasure. What is there to decide whether a particular pleasure is worth purchasing at the cost of a particular pain, except the feelings and judgment of the experienced?
Сторінка 327 - The great majority of good actions are intended not for the benefit of the world, but for that of individuals, of which the good of the world is made up; and the thoughts of the most virtuous man need not on these occasions travel beyond the particular persons concerned, except so far as is necessary to assure himself that in benefiting them he is not violating the rights — that is, the legitimate and authorized expectations — of anyone else.
Сторінка 370 - We do not call anything wrong, unless we mean to imply that a person ought to be punished in some way or other for doing it; if not by law, by the opinion of his fellow-creatures ; if not by opinion, by the reproaches of his own conscience.
Сторінка 325 - 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. In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. 'To do as you...
Сторінка 333 - ... and, if the principle of utility is good for anything, it must be good for weighing these conflicting utilities against one another and marking out the region within which one or the other preponderates.
Сторінка 286 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal.
Сторінка 315 - Men often, from infirmity of character, make their election for the nearer good, though they know it to be the less valuable; and this no less when the choice is between two bodily pleasures, than when it is between bodily and mental. They pursue sensual indulgences to 14 the injury of health, though perfectly aware that health is the greater good.