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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: DISCUSSIONS. THE PRACTICAL VALUE OF ETHICS. In a former number of this Journal (July, 1893, p. 507), I offered a defence of my view of Ethics as essentially a practical science, with special reference to the opposing doctrine set forth in Mr. Bradley's Ethical Studies, which I had just discovered to have a wider prevalence than I was previously aware of.f I afterwards expanded this defence in an article on Moral Science and the Moral Life, (January, 1894, p. 160), and I added somefurther remarks in a note to the second edition of my Manual of Ethics. Since the publication of these various statements, I have been waiting with some interest to see whether any of those (apparently a somewhat numerous body) who hold different views would think it worth while to present some counter-statement. Up to the present time, however, my hopes have been disappointed. Views similar to my own have recently been propounded by Mr. Hastings Rashdall in an article on The Limits of Casuistry (July, 1894, p. 459), but I have seen no statement of any other views. With regard to Mr. Bradley himself, I gather that he no longer adheres to the doctrine set forth in his Ethical Studies, and apparently repeated in his Principles of Logic; or at least that he would no longer be prepared to uphold it in the same emphatic form.f Indeed, some of his recent writings in this Journal would lead one to suppose that, so far from being a heretic in this matter, he now bids fair to take his place as the first by the throne. There is no one, I think, who has more boldly applied ethical principles to the treatment of practical problems than Mr. Bradley has done in his recent article entitled Some Remarks on Punishment (April, 1894, p. 269). It is true that, even there, he guards himself at the en...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217716956 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217716954 |
| Weight | 1.17 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 In |
| List Price | $26.62 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 360 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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