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. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...of duty, both will be treated as non-existent. Common sense does not allow a man, unless he be a philosopher, to ask, "Why must I believe my senses?" But it does allow, nay, it urges him to ask the other question, "Why ought I to obey my conscience?" and this question and its answer forms "a philosophical ...
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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. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...of duty, both will be treated as non-existent. Common sense does not allow a man, unless he be a philosopher, to ask, "Why must I believe my senses?" But it does allow, nay, it urges him to ask the other question, "Why ought I to obey my conscience?" and this question and its answer forms "a philosophical problem" upon the solution of which, in the great majority of cases, will depend whether the agent will, under the circumstances, observe or violate the laws of morality. When the authority of the moral judgment is challenged, we must be satisfied that we are bound to obey it.' The man who is solicited to one line of conduct by the sensual part of his nature and ordered to take another by his moral guide, will ask himself why he must obey the latter and contradict the former, why he must prefer the moral good to the other, which appeals powerfully to his animal appetites. The authority of duty conflicts continually with propensities just as radical to our nature as reason itself, and why we should live according to the higher faculty and why that part is the nobler, are questions which continually present themselves, either implicitly or explicitly, to our consciousness. Whoever puts to himself these questions and arrives at a practical solution has formed for himself a system of Ethics. Mankind, we have seen, accepted and acted upon the solution that right is to be done and evil avoided because such conduct is pleasing to the divinity. When speculation busies itself with the ever-recurring problem of man's origin and destiny, the most important, because the practical, part of the problem is what concerns the moral life. Every philosophy has aimed at a system of Ethics as its outcome and crown. Those of to-day, ...
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