Download book Evolution Essays Volume 5-12
Download book Evolution Essays Volume 5-12
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Author: Brooklyn Ethical Association
Page Count: 48 pages
Published Date: 19 May 2012
Publisher: Not Avail
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236220097
File size: 20 Mb
Download Link: Evolution Essays Volume 5-12
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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. 1890 Excerpt: ...full of dangers. The turn-pike road of the fathers is the safe and narrow way. The engineer who sets out through the wilderness to survey a path for the iron rails, is committing an act of sacrilege and impiety. Seeing that this is so, it behooves us nevertheless to look well to the ethical foundations of this new doctrine of Evolution. The welfare of men and of kingdoms may depend upon their stability and strength. The present age is a period of transition. Old sanctions are being undermined. Man fronts the Universe and the problems of life in a new attitude. The revolution in thought through which we are passing has been well termed, by Copyright, 1889, by The New Ideal Publishing Co. In ethics, it rejects as incompetent all moral judgments based upon experiential tests. The actual bearing of the doctrine thus assailed, upon ethical sanctions, may best be understood by the study of its theory of the genesis and development of the moral sense. It should be said at the outset, however, that the leading representatives of the new school of thought by no means admit the validity of these charges of their critics. The evolution philosophy affirms the supremacy of ethics, and makes moral science the culmination of its entire system of thought. "My ultimate purpose," says Mr. Spencer, in his preface to the Data of Ethics, "lying behind all proximate purposes, has been that of finding for the principles of right and wrong, in conduct at large, a scientific basis." In its investigation of morals, the new philosophy lays its foundation upon the solid rock of fact, as revealed in human experience. Its ethical structure does not rest upon a cloud-fabric of theological or metaphysical assumption, but upon human nature itself--upon man's natural des...
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Evolution Essays Volume 5-12. Brooklyn Ethical Association
Author: Brooklyn Ethical Association
Page Count: 48 pages
Published Date: 19 May 2012
Publisher: Not Avail
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236220097
File size: 20 Mb
Download Link: Evolution Essays Volume 5-12
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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. 1890 Excerpt: ...full of dangers. The turn-pike road of the fathers is the safe and narrow way. The engineer who sets out through the wilderness to survey a path for the iron rails, is committing an act of sacrilege and impiety. Seeing that this is so, it behooves us nevertheless to look well to the ethical foundations of this new doctrine of Evolution. The welfare of men and of kingdoms may depend upon their stability and strength. The present age is a period of transition. Old sanctions are being undermined. Man fronts the Universe and the problems of life in a new attitude. The revolution in thought through which we are passing has been well termed, by Copyright, 1889, by The New Ideal Publishing Co. In ethics, it rejects as incompetent all moral judgments based upon experiential tests. The actual bearing of the doctrine thus assailed, upon ethical sanctions, may best be understood by the study of its theory of the genesis and development of the moral sense. It should be said at the outset, however, that the leading representatives of the new school of thought by no means admit the validity of these charges of their critics. The evolution philosophy affirms the supremacy of ethics, and makes moral science the culmination of its entire system of thought. "My ultimate purpose," says Mr. Spencer, in his preface to the Data of Ethics, "lying behind all proximate purposes, has been that of finding for the principles of right and wrong, in conduct at large, a scientific basis." In its investigation of morals, the new philosophy lays its foundation upon the solid rock of fact, as revealed in human experience. Its ethical structure does not rest upon a cloud-fabric of theological or metaphysical assumption, but upon human nature itself--upon man's natural des...
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