I regard the apprehension, with more or less distinctness of these abstract truths, as the permanent basis of the common conviction that the fundamental precepts of morality are essentially reasonable. The Methods of Ethics - Seite 383von Henry Sidgwick - 1901 - 526 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Henry Sidgwick - 1884 - 200 Seiten
...the relation which individuals and their particular ends bear to the wholes of which they are parts. I regard the apprehension, with more or less distinctness,...the common conviction that the fundamental precepts 1 Cf. ante, note to p. 120, of morality are essentially reasonable. No doubt by loose thinkers these... | |
| Henry Hughes - 1890 - 392 Seiten
...their particular ends bear to the 1 The Methods of Eihics, p. 380. wholes of which they are parts. I regard the apprehension, with more or less distinctness,...precepts of morality are essentially reasonable. No doubt by loose thinkers these principles are often placed side by side with other precepts to which custom... | |
| Carveth Read - 1909 - 352 Seiten
...than in the other." These things are self-evident, immediately cognisable by abstract intuition, " the permanent basis of the common conviction that...precepts of morality are essentially reasonable." Entirely agreeing with these passages, and recognising their importance both in the reconciling of... | |
| Charles Lester Sherman - 1927 - 386 Seiten
...benevolence a self-evident intuition, but justice and prudence are similarly considered. Sidgwick says : "I regard the apprehension, with more or less distinctness,...fundamental precepts of morality are essentially reasonable. " 2 It will readily be seen that the theory of rational benevolence supplies only the logical basis... | |
| Jerome B. Schneewind - 1977 - 490 Seiten
...drawn upon when Sidgwick says that the more or less clear apprehension of these 'abstract truths' is 'the permanent basis of the common conviction that the fundamental precepts of morality 1 Rashdall, Theory of Govd and Evil, \, 147; James Seth, 'The Ethical System of Henry Sidgwick', Mind,... | |
| Bart Schultz - 2002 - 444 Seiten
...It is the apprehension, "with more or less distinctness, of these abstract truths" that he regards as "the permanent basis of the common conviction that...fundamental precepts of morality are essentially reasonable" (ME, 383). The self-evident principles are framed, as Schneewind stresses, so that the key ethical... | |
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