Self-realization: An Outline of EthicsH. Holt, 1913 - 429 pages |
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ability achievement activity actual adjustment æsthetic altruistic appear Aristotle attainment cerned Chap character conception conscience consciousness consequences coöperation courage course Cyrenaicism desire dividual duty end of action Epicurean Epicurus essential Ethics evolution exercise existence experience expression external fact faculties feeling forms of conduct friendship future happiness Hebraism and Hellenism Hedonism Hedonist Hence highest human conduct human individual human nature human personality idea ideal impulses instinct intellectual intelligence interest knowledge larger LESLIE STEPHEN limited man's means ment moral development moral judgment moral sentiments moral value motive necessary Nicomachean Ethics normative science objects obligation organization pain Plato pleasure possess possible practical present principle purposes pursuit Rationalism realization reason relation result sacrifice satisfaction seek self-organization Self-realization self-sacrifice sense social Socrates sphere spiritual capacities Stoicism subordination summum bonum sympathy theory thought tical tion true truth unity universal vidual virtues volition voluntary action well-being whole
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Page 346 - A permanently successful peace-economy cannot be a simple pleasure-economy. In the more or less socialistic future towards which mankind seems drifting we must still subject ourselves collectively to those severities which answer to our real position upon this only partly hospitable globe. We must make new energies and hardihoods continue the manliness to which the military mind so faithfully clings. Martial virtues must be the enduring cement; intrepidity, contempt of softness, surrender of private...
Page 196 - STERN Daughter of the Voice of God ! O Duty ! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove ; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe, From vain temptations dost set free, And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity!
Page 350 - Yet lackest thou one thing : sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and come, follow me.
Page 118 - Or, crown'd with attributes of woe Like glories, move his course, and show That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Page 149 - Will you or won't you have it so?' is the most probing question we are ever asked : we are asked it every hour of the day, and about the largest as well as the smallest, the most theoretical as well as the most practical, things. We answer by consents or non-consents, and not by words. What wonder...
Page 262 - There can be no greater argument to a man of his own power, than to find himself able, not only to accomplish his own desires, but also to assist other men in theirs: and this is that conception wherein consisteth charity.
Page 347 - To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes-washing, and window-washing, to road-building and tunnel-making, to foundries and stoke-holes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas.
Page 70 - Duty! Thou sublime and mighty name that dost embrace nothing charming or insinuating but requirest submission and yet seekest not to move the will by threatening aught that would arouse natural aversion or terror, but only boldest forth a law which of itself finds entrance into the mind and yet gains reluctant reverence...
Page 48 - ... the doctrine of innate powers of moral perception becomes congruous with the utilitarian doctrine, when it is seen that preferences and aversions are rendered organic by inheritance of the effects of pleasurable and painful experiences in progenitors.
Page 347 - ... a conscription of the whole youthful population to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against Nature, the injustice would tend to be evened out, and numerous other goods to the commonwealth would follow.