# ent

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  Belief in God and in a future life is a source of refined and elevated pleasure to those who can hold it.


id: 46129
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  Courage, Temperance, Liberality, Magnanimity, Magnificence, Meekness, Amiability or Friendliness, Truthfulness, Justice


# bib

id: 28901
title: Social Rights And Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies. Vol 1 [of 2]
author: Stephen, Leslie
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  the scientific sense of any set of men who agree upon a doctrine, state of mind--if we look to men''s real thoughts and actions, not to man," or the doctrines of political equality. altering the course of the social, intellectual and moral changes which scientific reasoning, that a break-down of social order implies some man, but--of the existence of a certain social mechanism. in point of fact, the two principles apply to the same case, and are to-day is the moral aspect of competition considered generally. generally be guided in a number of cases by some principle of equality. poor man as for the rich; and the question is, how far it is desirable actually is; what are, in fact, the motives which make men moral, and theory of the facts cannot make men moral of itself. could be suppressed, if every man worked for the good of society as


id: 12035
title: Progressive Morality: An Essay in Ethics
author: Fowler, Thomas
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  moral feelings, with a view to shew how far they may be justified and acts of a moral character which are not affected, in most countries, by feelings which really concern the moral and social welfare of mankind. constitute the moral sanction, by no means invariably supervene on acts moral sanction depend, to a considerable extent, on the circumstances act of moral approbation, as has sometimes been the case, but as only a moral but a legal one, the act of determining the character of which determines the character of an act,--the moral judgment,--and the conduct excites no moral feeling on our part, though, if he were to act men, there is not likely to occur any case in which the greater social reason and society, how can we employ them as a test of morality, which society if men generally were to act in that manner.


id: 37998
title: Morals and the Evolution of Man
author: Nordau, Max Simon
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  For the Stoics, too, Morality is action in accordance with the law of until man becomes a member of a moral community that the ideas of Duty all rights to pronounce an objective moral judgment on any human action. impulses, to make moral laws for the select few who are its natural moral actions it originates in the self-satisfaction of Reason, in its moral law of the community, for it is only by means of a vigorous social As the Moral law originated to meet the needs of the community, and was possible, prescribes to the individual the laws governing his moral objections with which they victoriously opposed natural Law. The beginnings of Morality coincide with the beginnings of society, as he really means by natural Law is Morality, and in this respect his the individual submits to the Moral law of his own accord, or because he


id: 39155
title: A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution
author: Williams, Cora May
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  relation of these to reason, pleasure, pain, and the moral sense, all other forms of animal life changed again and again, man''s physical instance, partial good may result, a far greater general evil is of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of action necessarily consciousness grows; the feeling of moral obligation in general arising "But the Good, or End of Action, is a possible object of knowledge difference between conduct that regards human beings as mere means to hand, a too great subjection of individual interests makes a man a mere motives directed to the good of the individual are at work, the action As far as morality concerns itself with the individual, the good act In the good man, the pleasure of attainment is the ethical sense of the individual differences between organic beings in a state of nature, "good-natured" has come to have a certain idea of mental and moral


id: 36957
title: Social Rights And Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies. Vol 2 [of 2]
author: Stephen, Leslie
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  define the exact nature of the fact; but the influence upon any general occurrence of a group of great men at a certain period prove a superior know more of the facts and laws of nature, and have, so to speak, better me--very undeniable fact: that the difference between a civilised man think, allow, in general terms, that the fact that a man''s conduct has a could make different laws for bad men and good, it would follow that the from sincere political motives is generally far better morally than the According to my view of morals, any pleasure in causing pain is, so far, a satisfaction of all our desires, a man of small means may be as happy as the man of the greatest means, if his desires are limited in morality or politics, which is intended to be true of men in general, I


id: 46129
title: The Data of Ethics
author: Spencer, Herbert
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  definition of conduct which emerges is either acts adjusted to ends, or acts to ends subserving individual life and the rearing of offspring, adjustment of acts to ends in maintaining individual life and rearing conduct which achieves each kind of end is regarded as relatively good; state, both makes possible and requires a form of conduct such that conduct is good or bad according as its total effects are pleasurable which makes happiness of a certain kind and degree its end; and the natural relations, happiness is produced by this kind of conduct, which For the general truth that guidance by such simple pleasures and pains that the pleasures and pains directly related to maintenance of life of pleasures over pains should be the end of action, because the again brings out the result that making "general happiness" the end "the general happiness," is the proper end of action, then not only


id: 56721
title: On Mr. Spencer''s Data of Ethics
author: Guthrie, Malcolm (Writer on Herbert Spencer)
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  consisting of changes due to the laws of a moving equilibrium, Mr. Spencer seeks to show that the adaptations of an organism in response to life, yet very little adjusted to ends; but again he regards its actions system by studying first what he terms the biological view of ethics. can the purely biological view of animal organisms as physical moving factor a commanding position in the physical action of organisms; it organisms were originated and maintained by the action of physical laws life in each individual organism as regards its continued existence, and biological law is the continuous adjustment of organisms to environment, general biological law, and takes the mind off from the special ethical development of organism and actions, including the subjective as of an incomprehensible Self-Determining Power on the part of the Ego. The Deterministic theory as regards the actions and conduct of an


