An Introduction to Ethics
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ISBN13: 9780217681216
Paperback|9780217681216
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. PSYCHICAL NATURE OF MAN. Thk freedom which the immediately preceding section ascribes to man, over the forces even of his own nature, becomes more marked in psychical life; and therefore that life is sometimes described as if it were independent of natural law to an extent which is wholly inconsistent with the most elementary notions of Psychology. It has been a prominent controversy in Theology, as well as in Philosophy, whether, and to what extent, the psychical nature of man, upon which his morality founds, is affected by hereditary influences. In the Christian Church it has been condemned as a heresy, and in Philosophy, especially as influenced by the predominant scientific ideas of our own day, it is likewise an untenable theory, that man's nature is independent of the particular race with which he is hereditarily connected. Every department of science which treats of human life is being profoundly modified by the conviction that human nature, as we find it now in all its manifestations, is in some sense an evolution of human nature as it existed in the past. Accordingly the mental life of every man is, in a large measure, hereditarily determined by the narrower influences of his immediate ancestry, by the widerinfluences of the particular race to which he belongs. It is impossible therefore, even if it were desirable, to carry out that crude radicalism which would act without any regard to the past history of the individual, of his family, or of his race. No men can cut themselves adrift from the past with which they are connected by nature; and this natural fact will be found to be of high moral and political significance, as pointing to the source from which arise the distinctive obligations devolving on every individual and pn every people. In hi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217681216 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217681212 |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 226 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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