Conscience (Volume 1); An Essay Towards a New Analysis, Deduction and Development of Conscience - Softcover
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1894. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. THE INSTINCTIVELY SOCIAL THEORY, OK SOCIALISTIC HEDONISM. within Boa- Within Buddhism and Christendom so high an estimate of Christendom the function of the social instinct has come to be entertively social tained that its working within us is considered by many to been held to be the ultimate law in conscience. As formally constituting formally con- its activities most thinkers tend to couple with this instinct tivitiesof0 an auxiliary functioning of the passively rational nature in consc ence. secondary relations. The kind and measure of reason which this implies was explained in the earlier half of the previous chapter while dealing with the mental correlates of the instinctively selfish theory. The same powers of mechanical memory, passive judgment, comparison, and inference from particulars to particulars must be pre-supposed as auxiliaries when the social instinct is declared to be the ground of the activity of conscience. Without this amount of aid from the possession of quasi-rational faculties no theory of conscience could even be stated clearly or coherently. To rest its activity upon an instinct without co-operation from our reasoning powers would be a transparent impossibility. Nevertheless the work of reason as conceived in these theories is strictly ancillary and subordinate. It is instinct and not reason that is regarded as supplying the final standard and susceptibility in the moral sense, and the corresponding motive and impulse in the sense of duty. The leading Among the more distinguished members of the school of Hedonists, thought which adopts Socialistic Hedonism as the law in conscience there are British moralists like Shaftesbury, Hutchison, Hume, and Adam Smith. Besides these thinkers of an older date, there are many other philosophical writers of...
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