A fragment on Mackintosh [by J. Mill] strictures on some passages in the Dissertation [on the progress of ethical philosophy].1835 |
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Strana 10
... respecting the action ; but the affirmation about the moral sense is an affirmation respecting the mind of the spectator ; a different thing . Two affirmations , however , about two different things , have no bearing one upon another ...
... respecting the action ; but the affirmation about the moral sense is an affirmation respecting the mind of the spectator ; a different thing . Two affirmations , however , about two different things , have no bearing one upon another ...
Strana 11
... respect to the mind of the person who thinks of the act . And its affirmation with respect to the act , is a positive denial of the doctrine of utility . It affirms that moral distinctions need a particular faculty to discern them ...
... respect to the mind of the person who thinks of the act . And its affirmation with respect to the act , is a positive denial of the doctrine of utility . It affirms that moral distinctions need a particular faculty to discern them ...
Strana 19
... respect to the mental , and physical sciences , they were hardly regarded as objects of inquiry . The opinions of Aristotle were taught , as a branch of education ; and the possession of them in the memory was all that even the most ...
... respect to the mental , and physical sciences , they were hardly regarded as objects of inquiry . The opinions of Aristotle were taught , as a branch of education ; and the possession of them in the memory was all that even the most ...
Strana 43
... respect of the displeasure present , but in respect of the displea- sure expected , fear . So that pleasure , love , and Human Nature , ch . vii . appetite , which is also called desire , are divers 43.
... respect of the displeasure present , but in respect of the displea- sure expected , fear . So that pleasure , love , and Human Nature , ch . vii . appetite , which is also called desire , are divers 43.
Strana 48
James Mill. taking out a few of the decisions of Hobbes with respect to particular cases , stated nakedly , without the analysis which leads to them . The evidence of these decisions lies in the tenor of the whole discourse . To pick ...
James Mill. taking out a few of the decisions of Hobbes with respect to particular cases , stated nakedly , without the analysis which leads to them . The evidence of these decisions lies in the tenor of the whole discourse . To pick ...
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affirmation agent Andrew Fletcher appetite Aristotle association beneficial benevolence Bentham Butler called cause ciple command conscience consequences considered contemplation courage cultivate delight disapprobation dispositions and actions doctrine evil expression fact gives grand class gratification habits happiness Helvetius Hobbes Hobbes's human nature idea immoral important imputation interest jurisprudence law of nature leading to voluntary Leibnitz man's mankind mental dispositions leading Mill mind moral acts moral approbation moral sense moral sentiments motive never opinion pains passions philosophers pleasure praise precede the act principle of utility produce proposition prudence question racter reader reason regard sake says Sir James self-love selfish senti sentimental philosophy sentiments which precede shew Sir James goes Sir James means Sir James says Sir James tells Sir James's social affections sort talk tendency theory thing tion truth virtue virtuous feeling volition voluntary actions voluntary acts words wrong καὶ
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Strana 39 - All which qualities, called sensible, are in the object, that causeth them, but so many several motions of the matter, by which it presseth our organs diversely. Neither in us that are pressed, are they any thing else, but divers motions ; for motion produceth nothing but motion.
Strana 28 - He that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man ; but man-kind...
Strana 39 - For after the object is removed, or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the thing seen, though more obscure than when we see it.
Strana 258 - ... every man ought to be supposed a knave; and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest.
Strana 5 - In treating of the principles of morals there are two questions to be considered. First, wherein does virtue consist? Or what is the tone of temper, and tenor of conduct, which constitutes the excellent and praise-worthy character, the character which is the natural object of esteem, honour, and approbation?
Strana 27 - But there is another saying not of late understood, by which they might learn truly to read one another, if they would take the pains ; and that is, Nosce teipsum, Read thyself: which was not meant, as it is now used, to countenance, either the barbarous state of men in power, towards their inferiors ; or to encourage men of low degree, to a sawcie behaviour towards their betters ; but to teach us, that for the similitude of the thoughts, and passions of one man, to the thoughts, and passions of...
Strana 28 - ... of the passions, which are the things desired, feared, hoped, &c; for these the constitution individual and particular education do so vary, and they are so easy to be kept from our knowledge, that the characters of man's heart, blotted and confounded as they are with dissembling, lying, counterfeiting, and erroneous doctrines, are legible only to him that searcheth hearts.
Strana 66 - In these sermons,* he has taught truths more capable of being exactly distinguished from the doctrines of his predecessors, more satisfactorily established by him, more comprehensively applied to particulars, more rationally connected with each other, and therefore more worthy of the name of discovery, than any with which we are acquainted; if we ought not, with some hesitation, to except the first steps of the Grecian philosophers towards a Theory of Morals.
Strana 136 - ... that the sudden establishment of new codes can seldom be practicable or effectual for their purpose ; and that reformations, though founded on the principles of Jurisprudence, ought to be not only adapted to the peculiar interests of a people...
Strana 163 - The pleasures of benevolence are the pleasures resulting from the view of any pleasures supposed to be possessed by the beings who may be the objects of benevolence; to wit, the sensitive beings we are acquainted with; under which are commonly included, 1.