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. 1899 Excerpt: ...that the interests of the rest of the inhabitants of the universe were deemed trifling in comparison. The rest of the universe were supposed to attain their loftiest utilities in acting as accessories to this transcendent individual or set. Such a philosophy is, of course, an exceedingly comfortable meditation for ...
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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. 1899 Excerpt: ...that the interests of the rest of the inhabitants of the universe were deemed trifling in comparison. The rest of the universe were supposed to attain their loftiest utilities in acting as accessories to this transcendent individual or set. Such a philosophy is, of course, an exceedingly comfortable meditation for those who possess the privilege and the power, but it loses its consolation the moment a stronger individual or set comes upon the scene. During the historic evolution of the human species, social ethics has made its most substantial advances. And the fact that there has been during this period a gradual and rather startling increase in the number of beings in the universe deemed by the dominant ones to be worthy of consideration is a significant one, and indicates that the ideal of associated life contemplated by the cosmos is one of wider and wider and more nearly universal consideration. The earliest examples of human association were those practically of autocentricism. Each individual considered himself the only or chief end for which the universe existed. Each's own individual welfare was the end for which he struggled, and all the rest of the universe, sentient and insentient, was contemplated as means to this end. From this I-am-the-universe state of things have evolved, thru struggle, the various forms of aggregation--the family, the clan, the tribe, and the nation. Ethnocentricism is that stage of social evolution in which a nation or a race, as the dominant aggregate, looks upon itself as the only legitimate or profitable end for which the universe should exert itself. Ethical relations of one degree of seriousness or another are observed by the members of this nation or race to each other, but all those beings, human and non-human, bey...
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Add this copy of Better-World Philosophy; : a Sociological Synthesis to cart. $100.00, good condition, Sold by N. J. Burhans rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Monroe, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1899 by The Ward Waugh Company.
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Very Good. Cloth cover has lib insignia on back-lib markings on front and back end papers-slight spine end wear-pages fine but with lightly tanned edges-green cloth cover with sharp clear black lettering. on front, back and spine-vintage, rare, collectible
