Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life, Volume 2

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S. Sonnenschein ... Company, lim., 1897 - Ethics
 

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Page 154 - If, for instance, to take an extreme case, men were reared under precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and mothers would strive to kill their fertile daughters ; and no one would think of interfering.
Page 11 - it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong," he clearly meant that it was better for him, just as it was better for him "to be in disagreement with multitudes than, being one, to be in disagreement with...
Page 102 - He is its causa defidens, not efficiens, — another artifice from the scholastic apparatus, and one which only serves to render more evident the impossibility of making God responsible for morality without at the same time making him the originator of sin.1 Leibniz' other arguments are all in a like spirit. They are for the most part scholastic in character, and are efforts at reconciliation under a new form with the doctrines of the Church ; for instance, his distinction between what is above reason...

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