Category: Philosophy & Ethics
§ 1. The doctrine that correlatives imply one another--that a father cannot be thought of without thinking of a child, and that there can be no consciousness of superior without a consciousness of inferior--has for one of its common examples the necessary connection between th...
§ 40. The last chapter, in so far as it dealt with feelings in their relations to conduct, recognized only their physiological aspects: their psychological aspects were passed o...
6. CHAPTER VI.§ 30. The truth that the ideally moral man is one in whom the moving equilibrium is perfect, or approaches nearest to perfection, becomes, when translated into physiological lan...
3. CHAPTER III.§ 8. By comparing its meanings in different connections and observing what they have in common, we learn the essential meaning of a word; and the essential meaning of a word tha...
16. CHAPTER XV.§ 99. As applied to Ethics, the word "absolute" will by many be supposed to imply principles of right conduct that exist out of relation to life as conditioned on the Earth, out...
10. CHAPTER IX.§ 56. Comparisons of the foregoing chapters, with one another, suggest sundry questions which must be answered partially, if not completely, before anything can be done toward r...
14. CHAPTER XIII.§ 82. In the foregoing two chapters the case on behalf of Egoism and the case on behalf of Altruism have been stated. The two conflict; and we have now to consider what verdict...
4. CHAPTER IV.§ 17. Intellectual progress is by no one trait so adequately characterized as by development of the idea of causation, since development of this idea involves development of so...
13. CHAPTER XII.§ 75. If we define altruism as being all action which, in the normal course of things, benefits others instead of benefiting self, then, from the dawn of life, altruism has been...
15. CHAPTER XIV.§ 92. As exhibited in the last chapter, the compromise between the claims of self and the claims of others seems to imply permanent antagonism between the two. The pursuit by ea...
8. CHAPTER VIII.§ 48. Not for the human race only, but for every race, there are laws of right living. Given its environment and its structure, and there is for each kind of creature a set of a...
12. CHAPTER XI.§ 68. If insistance on them tends to unsettle established systems of belief, self-evident truths are by most people silently passed over; or else there is a tacit refusal to dra...
2. CHAPTER II.§ 3. We have become quite familiar with the idea of an evolution of structures throughout the ascending types of animals. To a considerable degree we have become familiar with t...
11. CHAPTER X.§ 63. A truth of cardinal importance as a datum of Ethics, which was incidentally referred to in the last chapter, must here be set forth at full length. I mean the truth that n...
5. CHAPTER V.§ 24. Every moment we pass instantly from men's perceived actions to the motives implied by them; and so are led to formulate these actions in mental terms rather than in bodily...
17. CHAPTER XVI.§ 107. At the outset it was shown that as the conduct with which Ethics deals is a part of conduct at large, conduct at large must be understood before this part can be understo...
1. CHAPTER I.§ 1. The doctrine that correlatives imply one another--that a father cannot be thought of without thinking of a child, and that there can be no consciousness of superior without...
9. Part II, each order of functionaries and each group of producers,severally performing some action or making some article not for direct satisfaction of their own needs but for satisfaction of the needs of fellow-citizens in general, otherwise...