Tertium Quid: Chapters on Various Disputed Questions, Volumul 1K. Paul, Trench, and Company, 1887 |
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Tertium Quid: Chapters on Various Disputed Questions, Volumul 1 Edmund Gurney Vizualizare completă - 1887 |
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Pagina 182 - The advancement of science, and not practical utility to medicine, is the true and straightforward object of all vivisection. No true investigator in his researches thinks of the practical utilization. Science can afford to despise this justification with which vivisection has been defended in England.
Pagina 316 - Universe, as (eg) by saying that 'nature designed him to seek his own happiness,' - it then becomes relevant to point out to him that his happiness cannot be a more important part of Good, taken universally, than the equal happiness of any other person. And thus, starting...
Pagina 321 - ... is one of an indefinite number of similar self-evident propositions, which are described by saying that " things which are equal to the same thing are equal to one another"; but which do not require to be deduced from such general description in order to make them certain.
Pagina 325 - The important duties of the moralist, for he has important duties, arise from the confused state in which the greater part of mankind are with regard to their ethical first principles. The two questions each man has to ask himself are — What do I hold to be the ultimate ends of action ? and — If there is more than one such end, how do I estimate them in case of conflict ? These two questions, it will be observed, are questions of fact, not of law ; and the duty of the moralist is to help his...
Pagina 353 - The feeling of personality, then, is a certain feeling of connection between faint images of past feelings ; and personality itself is the fact that such connections are set up, the property of the stream of feelings that part of it consists of links binding together faint reproductions of previous parts. It is thus a relative thing, a mode of complication of certain elements, and a property of the complex so produced. This complex is consciousness. When a stream of feelings is so compacted together...
Pagina 219 - Wilks is not equally satisfied, his instincts are better than his logic. Disagreeably in accordance, too, with this same formula are his remarks on scientific method, according to which ' the rocks are broken and put in the crucible, the water is submitted to analysis, the plant is dissected ; ' and ' in animal life the same method must be adopted to unlock the secrets of nature. The question of the animal being sensitive cannot alter the mode of investigation.
Pagina 316 - If the Egoist strictly confines himself to stating his conviction that he ought to take his own happiness or pleasure as his ultimate end...
Pagina 52 - Humanity overflowing the individual as the ocean does a cup,' till the cup happens one day to turn upside down ; of the voice of conscience speaking in tones whose depth and urgency seem often a mockery of their contents ; of the Goddess in whose path ' flowers laugh ' and ' fragrance treads ' crushing worshippers beneath her chariot-wheels ; of the sense of infinite import in life, to be found (we are told) by aach in the mere multitude of lives stunted and limited like his own.
Pagina 356 - Matter is a mental picture in which mind-stuff is the thing represented. Reason, intelligence, and volition are properties of a complex which is made up of elements themselves not rational, not intelligent, not conscious.
Pagina 145 - The philosophy of complete doubt,' he continues, ' stands self-condemned and only exists as a disease, not to be propagated by any one in his senses : while if the doubt be not complete, if it be not perfectly balanced in the centre, it must be always tending to one pole or the other, and its right name would be incomplete religion or incomplete atheism, neither of which stages is final ; and, the incompleteness being in each case an imperfection, it must be got rid of before we can do any justice...