Handbook of Moral Philosophy

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Macmillan & Company, 1885 - Ethics - 319 pages

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Page 23 - BACON'S ESSAYS AND COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL. With Notes and Glossarial Index. By W. ALDIS WRIGHT, MA " The beautiful little edition of Bacon's Essays, now before us, does credit to the taste and scholarship of Mr.
Page 127 - the doing good to mankind, in " obedience to the will of God, and for the " sake of everlasting happiness...
Page 126 - But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth "good " : and the object of his hate and aversion, "evil " ; and of his contempt, "vile" and "inconsiderable." For these words of good, evil, and contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them : there being nothing simply and absolutely so ; nor any common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves...
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Page 121 - The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
Page 127 - 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.

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