Justice: Being Part IV of The Principles of EthicsD. Appleton, 1892 - 299 pages |
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... gradually came . Years of declining health and decreasing power of work , brought , in 1886 , a complete collapse ; and further elabora- tion of The Synthetic Philosophy was suspended until the beginning of 1890 , when it became again ...
... gradually came . Years of declining health and decreasing power of work , brought , in 1886 , a complete collapse ; and further elabora- tion of The Synthetic Philosophy was suspended until the beginning of 1890 , when it became again ...
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... gradually evolved into higher forms . By care of offspring , which has become greater with advancing organization , and by survival of the fittest in the competition among adults , which has become more habitual with advancing ...
... gradually evolved into higher forms . By care of offspring , which has become greater with advancing organization , and by survival of the fittest in the competition among adults , which has become more habitual with advancing ...
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... gradually form guiding tendencies , prompting appropriate behaviour and deterring from inappropriate . The contrast between fearless birds found on islands never before visited by man , and the birds around us , which show fear of man ...
... gradually form guiding tendencies , prompting appropriate behaviour and deterring from inappropriate . The contrast between fearless birds found on islands never before visited by man , and the birds around us , which show fear of man ...
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... gradually responds to wider relations : being excited now by the incidents of personal bondage , now by those of political bondage , now by those of class - privilege , and now by small political changes . Eventually this sentiment ...
... gradually responds to wider relations : being excited now by the incidents of personal bondage , now by those of political bondage , now by those of class - privilege , and now by small political changes . Eventually this sentiment ...
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... gradually , along with repugnance to the acts which bring reactive pains , there arises a conception of a limit to each kind of activity up to which there is freedom to act . But since the kinds of activity are many and become ...
... gradually , along with repugnance to the acts which bring reactive pains , there arises a conception of a limit to each kind of activity up to which there is freedom to act . But since the kinds of activity are many and become ...
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Page 52 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Page 52 - Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
Page 53 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 94 - The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 41 - Principle. That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree (with the proper allowance made for kind). is counted for exactly as much as another's. Those conditions being supplied, Bentham's dictum, "everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one.
Page 94 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Page 222 - Spencer's formula of justice, "the liberty of each limited only by the like liberties of all," represents the ideal which Amercan law has had before it during its whole existence.
Page 53 - The value and serviceableness of the conception arose from its keeping before the mental vision a type of perfect law, and from its inspiring the hope of an indefinite approximation to it, at the same time that it never tempted the practitioner or the citizen to deny the obligation of existing laws which had not yet been adjusted to the theory.
Page 264 - And then there follows this section : — "UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE OF RIGHT. " ' Every Action is rigid which in itself, or in the maxim on which it proceeds, is such that it can co-exist along with the Freedom of the Will of each and all in action, according to a universal Law.
Page 274 - It is not for nothing that he has in him these sympathies with some principles and repugnance to others. He, with all his capacities and aspirations, and beliefs, is not an accident, but a product of the time. He must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future; and that his thoughts are as children born to him, which he may not carelessly let die.