A Student's Handbook of Psychology and Ethics: Designed Chiefly for the London B.A. and B.Sc

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W. Swan Sonnenschein & Allen, 1880 - 173

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Strona 124 - By the principle of utility is meant that principle which approves or disapproves of every action whatsoever, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question: or, what is the same thing in other words, to promote or to oppose that happiness.
Strona 124 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Strona 134 - That what excites us to these actions, which we call virtuous, is not an intention to obtain even this sensible pleasure; much less the future rewards from sanctions of laws, or any 134 ETHICS other natural good, which may be the consequence of the virtuous action; but an entirely different principle of action from interest or self-love.
Strona 153 - And the sentiment of justice appears to me to be, the animal desire to repel or retaliate a hurt or damage to oneself, or to those with whom one sympathises, widened so as to include all persons, by the human capacity of enlarged sympathy, and the human conception of intelligent self-interest.
Strona 134 - And, in the same manner, we either approve or disapprove of our own conduct, according as we feel that, when we place ourselves in the situation of another man, and view it, as it were, with his eyes and from his station, we either can or cannot entirely enter into and sympathize with the sentiments and motives which influenced it.
Strona 130 - There are two ways in which the subject of morals may be treated. One begins from inquiring into the abstract relations of things: the other from a matter of fact, namely, what the particular nature of man is, its several parts, their economy or constitution ; from whence it proceeds to determine what course of life it is, which is correspondent to this whole nature.
Strona 63 - Actions, Sensations, and States of Feeling, occurring together or in close succession, tend to grow together, or cohere, In such a way that, when any one of them is afterwards presented to the mind, the others are apt to be brought up in idea
Strona 131 - ... is correspondent to this whole nature. In the former method the conclusion is expressed thus, that vice is contrary to the nature and reason of things: in the latter, that it is a violation or breaking in upon our own nature. Thus they both lead us to the same thing, our obligations to the practice of virtue; and thus they exceedingly strengthen and enforce each other. The first seems the most direct formal proof, and in some respects the least liable to cavil and dispute: the latter is in a...
Strona 105 - In deliberation, the last appetite or aversion immediately adhering to the action or to the omission thereof is that we call the WILL— the act, not the faculty, of willing.
Strona 10 - Mind, therefore, is to be understood as the subject of the various internal phenomena of which we are conscious, or that subject of which consciousness is the general phenomenon. Consciousness is, in fact, to the mind what extension is to matter or body. Though both are phenomena, yet both are essential qualities ; for we can neither conceive mind without consciousness, nor body without extension.

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