The Ethics of Hercules: A Study of Man's Body as the Sole Determinant of Ethical ValuesThis is a new release of the original 1924 edition. |
Other editions - View all
The Ethics of Hercules: A Study of Man's Body as the Sole Determinant of ... Robert Chenault Givler No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
abstract terms action action-pattern implied action-tendency activity Adelie Penguin all-or-none analysis antagonistic antagonistic muscles antonym aroused array assertion attainment become behavior bodily called character claims and interests Class E conduct conscience deduced from Class defined dependable describe desire Edwin Holt employed energy environment ethical books ethical concepts ethical values example extensor fact freedom functions greatest common divisors hand ical involved John Dewey judgments legal rights logical man's manifest meaning mechanisms mechanistic ethics ment mental method metonomy mind moral rights Moreover motor muscles muscular nature Nevertheless objects opposite organism outgoing reaction overt perform persons philosophy phrase physical physiological Plato principle problem problem of evil produce protoplasm psychology refer reflex regarded ROY WOOD SELLARS scientific sense sentiment significations social sort Spinoza statement stimulus tendency term evil theory things thought tion traits truth valid virtue and vice vitalist word bad word right wrong Zoroaster
Popular passages
Page 165 - The internal sanction of duty, whatever our standard of duty may be, is one and the same — a feeling in our own mind ; a pain, more or less intense, attendant on violation of duty, which in properly cultivated moral natures rises, in the more serious cases, into shrinking from it as an impossibility.
Page 75 - Aristotle downwards, philosophers should have vied with each other in scorn of the knowledge of the particular, and in adoration of that of the general, is hard to understand, seeing that the more adorable knowledge ought to be that of the more adorable things, and that the things of worth are all concretes and singulars. The only value of universal characters is that they help us, by reasoning, to know new truths about individual things.
Page 159 - Whatever I judge reasonable or unreasonable for another to do for Me, That, by the same Judgment, I declare reasonable or unreasonable, that I in the like Case should do for Him.
Page 94 - And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 159 - A man's will is good, not because the consequences which flow from it are good, nor because it is capable of attaining the end which it seeks, but it is good in itself, or because it wills the good.
Page 36 - ... our thoughts in connection with these terms, and as we afterwards find it more easy to recall the words than the things signified by them, we can scarcely conceive anything with such distinctness as to separate entirely what we conceive from the words that were selected to express it. On this account the majority attend to words rather than to things ; and thus very frequently assent to terms without attaching to them any meaning, either because they think they once understood them, or imagine...
Page 165 - ... derived from sympathy, from love, and still more from fear ; from all the forms of religious feeling ; from the recollections of childhood and of all our past life ; from selfesteem, desire of the esteem of others, and occasionally even self-abasement.
Page 95 - Whose fault ? Whose but his own ? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have ; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Page 165 - ... in that complex phenomenon as it actually exists, the simple fact is in general all encrusted over with collateral associations derived from sympathy, from love, and still more from fear; from all forms of religious feeling; from the recollections of childhood and of all our past life; from self-esteem, desire of the esteem of others, and occasionally even selfabasement.
Page 36 - Summary of what must be observed in order to philosophize correctly. Wherefore if we would philosophize in earnest, and give ourselves to the search after all the truths we are capable, of knowing, we must, in the first place, lay aside our prejudices ; in other words, we must take care scrupulously to withhold our assent from the opinions we have formerly admitted, until upon new examination we discover that they are true.