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Principles of Psychology

Principles of Psychology

Spencer, Herbert

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1153098865
ISBN13: 9781153098861
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.82 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...abundantly recognizes this double bearing of ethical insight. We have the word right as expressive of the intellectual recognition of moral law; and the words ought, obligation, duty, presenting the emotional element. The theories which do not accept the original, simple, inseparable character of the idea right, explain the intellectual element by the generalized notion of utility. This is done with very different degrees of success by earlier and later writers; but the empirical school agree in making utility the intellectual ground of ethics. We have appetites, sensibilities, tastes, affections to be gratified. Any thing or action which affords pleasure to any one of these is useful. This common power, which belongs to so many objects and relations, of furnishing some form of enjoyment, or some condition of it, is abstracted under the word utility. The inquiry which guides the conscience, it is said, is this inquiry into pleasure, into immediate and future enjoyment; and that, if fairly and thoroughly pushed and made to cover all gratifications high and low, it is an exhaustive statement of all that takes place in ethical research. While this is an inadequate theory of the intellectual grounds of duty, it is difficult to disprove it. What is affirmed by it does take place, and is a most apparent and a most necessary part of the process by which we arrive at a practical conclusion as to a line of action, whether it be right or wrong. The usefulness of an action, in a broad and deep sense of the word, is a correct criterion of its moral character; it becomes, therefore, very difficult to show, that it does not cover the entire ethical element. The quality right, like the quality beauty, is seen in an intellection, that is, in an act whose relations and bear...

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