Category: Philosophy & Ethics
=2.= but this is not that they are concerned with human conduct, but that they are concerned with a certain predicate ‘good,’ and its converse ‘bad,’ which may be applied both to conduct and to other things. 1
=2.= but this is not that they are concerned with human conduct, but that they are concerned with a certain predicate ‘good,’ and its converse ‘bad,’ which may be applied both t...
2. CHAPTER II.=24.= This and the two following chapters will consider certain proposed answers to the second of ethical questions: What is _good in itself_? These proposed answers are charact...
3. CHAPTER III.=37.= Hedonism may be defined as the doctrine that ‘Pleasure is the sole good’: this doctrine has always been held by Hedonists and used by them as a fundamental ethical princip...
4. CHAPTER IV.=66.= The term ‘metaphysical’ is defined as having reference primarily to any object of knowledge which is not a part of Nature--does not exist in time, as an object of percepti...
5. CHAPTER V.=86.= The question to be discussed in this chapter must be clearly distinguished from the two questions hitherto discussed, namely (1) What is the nature of the proposition: ‘Th...
6. CHAPTER VI.=110.= By an ‘ideal’ state of things may be meant either (1) the Summum Bonum or absolutely best, or (2) the best which the laws of nature allow to exist in this world, or (3) a...
7. CHAPTER I.=1.= It is very easy to point out some among our every-day judgments, with the truth of which Ethics is undoubtedly concerned. Whenever we say, ‘So and so is a good man,’ or ‘Th...
8. CHAPTER II.=24.= It results from the conclusions of Chapter I, that all ethical questions fall under one or other of three classes. The first class contains but one question--the question...
9. CHAPTER III.=36.= In this chapter we have to deal with what is perhaps the most famous and the most widely held of all ethical principles--the principle that nothing is good but pleasure. M...
10. CHAPTER IV.=66.= In this chapter I propose to deal with a type of ethical theory which is exemplified in the ethical views of the Stoics, of Spinoza, of Kant, and especially of a number of...
11. Chapter I., his conclusions would not be ethical. On the other hand,if the two are not identical, his conclusions may be ethical and may even be right, but he has not given us a single reason for believing them. The thing which a scientific Ethi...
12. CHAPTER V.=86.= In the present chapter we have again to take a great step in ethical method. My discussion hitherto has fallen under two main heads. Under the first, I tried to shew what...
13. CHAPTER VI.=110.= The title of this chapter is ambiguous. When we call a state of things ‘ideal’ we may mean three distinct things, which have only this in common: that we always do mean t...