Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Man is a part of Nature, not something contrasted with Nature. His thoughts and his bodily movements follow the same laws that describe the motions of stars and atoms. The physical world is large compared with Man――larger than it was thought to be in Dante’s time, but not so l...
Man is a part of Nature, not something contrasted with Nature. His thoughts and his bodily movements follow the same laws that describe the motions of stars and atoms. The physi...
2. CHAPTER IIThere have been at different times and among different people many varying conceptions of the good life. To some extent the differences were amenable to argument; this was when...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe practical need of morals arises from the conflict of desires, whether of different people or of the same person at different times or even at one time. A man desires to drin...
4. CHAPTER IVOne of the defects of traditional religion is its individualism, and this defect belongs also to the morality associated with it. Traditionally, the religious life was, as it we...
5. CHAPTER VThe purpose of the moralist is to improve men’s behaviour. This is a laudable ambition, since their behaviour is for the most part deplorable. But I cannot praise the moralist e...