Controversial lettersA. Strahan, 1865 |
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... nature of things , must be incapable of understanding the solution . Up to about page 43 of your work , then , I agree with you , in the grounds of your defence of the prin- ciple of Utility . But when you come to your justi- fication ...
... nature of things , must be incapable of understanding the solution . Up to about page 43 of your work , then , I agree with you , in the grounds of your defence of the prin- ciple of Utility . But when you come to your justi- fication ...
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... natural history . It has no more en in it than a table of geological strata , or a scale of musical notes . The essence of Morality is , you ought . Rules of con- duct may , and indeed must , require constant revision ; but first ...
... natural history . It has no more en in it than a table of geological strata , or a scale of musical notes . The essence of Morality is , you ought . Rules of con- duct may , and indeed must , require constant revision ; but first ...
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... nature of an ideal , and since it can never be re- alised , can never be verified by experience . Nothing is a good to human beings but in so far as it is either in itself pleasurable , or a means of at- taining pleasure , or averting ...
... nature of an ideal , and since it can never be re- alised , can never be verified by experience . Nothing is a good to human beings but in so far as it is either in itself pleasurable , or a means of at- taining pleasure , or averting ...
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... Nature of Things in General . That thing is Relatively Right - i.e . , right to the individual - which he himself believes to be absolutely right , ( whether it actually is so or not . ) Truthfulness is the lowest term of any man's self ...
... Nature of Things in General . That thing is Relatively Right - i.e . , right to the individual - which he himself believes to be absolutely right , ( whether it actually is so or not . ) Truthfulness is the lowest term of any man's self ...
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... nature escapes him . Nothing is more curious than the absence of recog- nition , in any of his writings , of the existence of con- science as a thing distinct from philanthropy , from affection for God or man , and from self - interest ...
... nature escapes him . Nothing is more curious than the absence of recog- nition , in any of his writings , of the existence of con- science as a thing distinct from philanthropy , from affection for God or man , and from self - interest ...
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