 I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are...  Annual Register - Side 314redigert av - 1880Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Frank Herbert Hayward - 1901 - 314 sider
...185] How ludicrous, then, appear at the present stag of knowledge the proud attempts to deduce " fron the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of actions necessarily tend to produc unhappiness " ; we have, after all, to fall back upoi the plain,... | |
 | Aaron Schuyler - 1902 - 476 sider
...necessary consequences of the constitution of things; and I conceive it to be the business of moral science to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of actions necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kind to produce unhappiness. Having done this,... | |
 | Edward John Hamilton - 1902 - 492 sider
...to question the proper applicability of the rule. Spencer says : " The business of moral science is to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kind of actions necessarily tend to produce happiness and what tends to produce unhappiness. Having... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman - 1903 - 292 sider
...dogmatic identification of goodness with pleasure. He holds it " to be the business of moral science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions...necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. . Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct." But... | |
 | Guillaume L. Duprat - 1903 - 416 sider
...empirical generalisations from the observed results of conduct, and completely attainable only by deducing from the laws of life and the conditions of existence,...necessarily tend to produce happiness and what kinds to produce unhappiness." l Now the law which dominates life is the la1v of evolution, or the passage from... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1903 - 404 sider
...necessary consequences of the constitution of things," and that " it is the business of moral science to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions of existence what kinds of actions tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness." It seems to me that history... | |
 | 1904 - 618 sider
...consequences of the constitution of things ; and I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions...necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Havingdone this, its deductions are to be recognised as laws of conduct.1 In other... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1904 - 140 sider
...consequences of the constitution of things ; and I conceive it to be the business of moral science to deduce from the laws of life and the conditions...necessarily tend to produce happiness and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognised as laws of conduct; and... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1904 - 364 sider
...those principles by which the highest life is achieved, is furthering that end." l It is possible " to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions...necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness." 2 Greatest pleasure, that is to say, is the end. But it is so impossible to compare... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1904 - 362 sider
...to certain principles which, in the nature of things, causally determine welfare."1 Having deduced "from the laws of life and the conditions of existence...necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness," we are to recognise these deductions " as laws of conduct . . . irrespective... | |
| |
