Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics

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Longmans, Green, 1879 - 438 pàgines
 

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Pàgina xxii - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Pàgina li - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Pàgina 67 - So act as to treat humanity whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only.
Pàgina 11 - Intelligence, wit, judgment, and the other talents of the mind, however they may be named, or courage, resolution, perseverance, as qualities of temperament, are undoubtedly good and desirable in many respects; but these gifts of nature may also become extremely bad and mischievous if the will which is to make use of them, and which, therefore, constitutes what is called character, is not good.
Pàgina lxiv - How short soever their knowledge may come of an universal or perfect comprehension of whatsoever is, it yet secures their great concernments, that they have light enough to lead them to the knowledge of their Maker, and the sight of their own duties.
Pàgina 21 - It is in this manner, undoubtedly, that we are to understand those passages of Scripture also in which we are commanded to love our neighbour, even our enemy. For love, as an affection, cannot be commanded, but beneficence for duty's sake may; even though we are not impelled to it by any inclination — nay, are even repelled by a natural and unconquerable aversion.
Pàgina 19 - Put the case that the mind of that philanthropist was clouded by sorrow of his own, extinguishing all sympathy with the lot of others, and that while he still has the power to benefit others in distress, he is not touched by their trouble because he is absorbed with his own; and now suppose...
Pàgina lvii - ... force, which gives us this internal conviction of power and causation so far as it refers to the material world, and compels us to believe that whenever we see material objects put in motion from a state of rest, or deflected from their rectilinear paths and changed in their velocities if already in motion, it is in consequence of such an EFFORT somehow exerted, though not accompanied with our consciousness.
Pàgina 25 - I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.
Pàgina 55 - Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

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