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... kind meets us , at ( b ) implies a the very outset of our inquiry , in the distinctively view , ethical notion expressed by the word " ought . " Various attempts have been made to surmount or circumvent this difficulty ; and some of ...
... kind meets us , at ( b ) implies a the very outset of our inquiry , in the distinctively view , ethical notion expressed by the word " ought . " Various attempts have been made to surmount or circumvent this difficulty ; and some of ...
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... kind make ethics merely an application of positive theology , or of legislation , or of social sentiment , and seem only to have an Their difference rather consists in the different position and func- tion assigned to reason in man . It ...
... kind make ethics merely an application of positive theology , or of legislation , or of social sentiment , and seem only to have an Their difference rather consists in the different position and func- tion assigned to reason in man . It ...
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... kind of things in which they take pleasure . ity of mo- logical he- which ig- So far as the first objection is concerned , it seems ( a ) complex- to me that the fault belongs to the psychological tive ; but it theory of human action ...
... kind of things in which they take pleasure . ity of mo- logical he- which ig- So far as the first objection is concerned , it seems ( a ) complex- to me that the fault belongs to the psychological tive ; but it theory of human action ...
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... kind of actions and suf- ferances in which they find pleasure . There can be no doubt of the importance of this distinction for questions of practical morals . The man in whom " selfishness takes the shape of benevolence , " as it did ...
... kind of actions and suf- ferances in which they find pleasure . There can be no doubt of the importance of this distinction for questions of practical morals . The man in whom " selfishness takes the shape of benevolence , " as it did ...
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... kind of pleasure may be , systematically , to be preferred to another , but it must be because the pleasures classified under it generally exceed those under the other in intensity , or some other of the elements of value . " enlivening ...
... kind of pleasure may be , systematically , to be preferred to another , but it must be because the pleasures classified under it generally exceed those under the other in intensity , or some other of the elements of value . " enlivening ...
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