History of European Morals: From Augustus to Charlemagne, Τόμος 1Appleton, 1891 |
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Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
absolutely action affections ancient animals appear Arrian asserted Aulus Gellius beauty believe benevolence Cæsar Cato causes character Christian Cicero civilisation condition conscience dæmons death degree Deity Deontology derived desire Dion Chrysostom distinct Divine doctrine Domitian duty emotions emperor Empire endeavoured enjoyment Epictetus Epicurean Epicurus ethics evil existence faculty favour feeling gladiatorial gladiators gods Greek habits happiness heroic Hist human ideas imagination influence intellectual interest intuitive moralist kind Laërt Livy mankind Marcus Aurelius Maximus of Tyre ment mind moral motive nations nature Nero never object opinion Pagan pain passion perfect persecution philosophy Plato pleasure Pliny Plotinus Plutarch political principles produce punishments realised reason recognised regarded religion religious Roman Rome selfish Seneca sense sensuality sentiment slaves society spirit Stoical Stoicism Stoics suffering suicide superstition supreme Tacitus tendency Tertullian theory things tion utilitarian vice virtue virtuous writers
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 8 - 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.
Σελίδα 41 - As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator. In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbour as yourself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
Σελίδα 90 - Its purity, or the chance it has of not being followed by sensations of the opposite kind: that is, pains, if it be a pleasure: pleasures, if it be a pain.
Σελίδα 153 - The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.
Σελίδα 41 - The criminal law stands to the passion of revenge in much the same relation as marriage to the sexual appetite.
Σελίδα 38 - ... the motive has nothing to do with the morality of the action, though much with the worth of the agent.
Σελίδα 14 - ... to us. As we should not be obliged to obey the laws, or the magistrate, unless rewards or punishments, pleasure or pain, somehow or other, depended upon our obedience; so neither should we. without the same reason, be obliged to do what is right, to practise virtue, or to obey the commands of God.
Σελίδα 20 - Bentham's idea of the world is that of a collection of persons pursuing each his separate interest or pleasure, and the prevention of whom from jostling one another more than is unavoidable, may be attempted by hopes and fears derived from three sources — the law, religion, and public opinion.
Σελίδα 29 - ... the original conditions by which virtue is made virtue ; however they may believe (as they do) that actions and dispositions are only virtuous because they promote another end than virtue ; yet this being granted, and it having been decided, from considerations of this description, what is virtuous, they not only place virtue at the very head of the things which are good as means to the ultimate end, but they also recognise as a psychological fact the possibility of its being, to the individual,...
Σελίδα 10 - When I condole with you for the loss of your only son, in order to enter into your grief I do not consider what I, a person of such a character and profession, should suffer, if I had a son, and if that son was unfortunately to die ; but I consider what I should suffer if I was really you, and I not only change circumstances with you, but I change persons and characters.