| Bernard Bosanquet - 1910 - 392 pages
...the good will, uttered in the famous sentence, " Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world or out of it which can be called good without qualification except a good will."1 Nothing is worth doing but what one ought, and because one ought. The criticism to which this... | |
| Franklin Blades - 1911 - 136 pages
...factor in the moral judgment. Kant in the opening sentence of his treatise on Ethics, forcibly says : "Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or...called good without qualification, except a Good Will." And the Greatest of the Apostles, he of Tarsus, the great Jewish metaphysician, put it still more forcibly... | |
| William De Witt Hyde - 1911 - 328 pages
...good natural endowments, but on our internal reaction, the reverence of our will for universal law. " Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or...called good without qualification, except a Good Will. Intelligence, wit, judgment, and the other talents of the mind, however they may be named, or courage,... | |
| Charles Frederick D'Arcy - 1912 - 328 pages
...duty." He reaches this position in the following way. Goodness is an attribute of the will only. " Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or...called good without qualification, except a Good Will. 1 See Kant's Theory of Ethics (Dr. Abbott's translation), 3rd ed. p. 16. ... A good will is good not... | |
| John Gormley Murdoch - 1913 - 408 pages
...Metaphysic of Morals" (Abbott's "Kant's Theory of Ethics," 4th ed. Longmans) with the oft-quoted sentence : "Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or...called good without qualification except a Good Will." In effect he continues: 'Intelligence, wit, judgment, courage, resolution, perseverance are undoubtedly... | |
| 1913 - 692 pages
...the world. Compared with it, the publicly owned systems of other countries are a pitiful farce. a* ar Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or...called good without qualification, except a Good Will. — Immanuel Kant. The Second Tower of Babel By JK TURNER HE confusion of laws which sweeps forth from... | |
| Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church - 1913 - 418 pages
...evanescent in mere psychology). His Godhead is Kant's "one only thing that can possibly be conceived in this world, or even out of it, which can be called good without qualification — a Good Will", made absolute. The value of His Godhead is that wherein we apprehend Him as of Godhead,... | |
| Durant Drake - 1914 - 480 pages
...goodness of "good will." (3) Kant argues as follows: "Nothing can possibly be conceived, in the world or out of it, which can be called good without qualification, except a good will." l He goes on to show that wit, courage, perseverance, etc., are all bad if the will that makes use... | |
| John Henry Bridges - 1915 - 508 pages
...will quote the opening words of his Metaphysie of Ethics : " Nothing can possibly be conceived in this world, or even out of it, which can be called good without qualification, except a Good Will." ' Moral worth depends, he goes on to show, on this alone, and not on feelings of any kind, whether... | |
| Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1917 - 452 pages
...good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even of being worthy of happiness. ... A good will is good not because of what it performs or accomplishes, not by its aptness for the attainment of some proposed end, but simply in virtue of its... | |
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