ISBN: 9781173239572

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PROBLEM OF DUTY: A STUDY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF CONDUCT. In most cases of ordinary life it is unnecessary to inquire into the nature of duty, or to question the absoluteness of conscience; it is not even necessary to have a definite moral philosophy at all. As we do not need to know the precise Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PROBLEM OF DUTY: A STUDY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF CONDUCT. In most cases of ordinary life it is unnecessary to inquire into the nature of duty, or to question the absoluteness of conscience; it is not even necessary to have a definite moral philosophy at all. As we do not need to know the precise operation of the great organs of our body, the heart and the lungs, but their healthiest work goes on without interruption by the interrogatories of consciousness, so our conscience ordinarily does best service when we simply obey its demands. And yet the discussion of the philosophy of duty, which we justly regard as unprofitable when compared with the practice of duty, is not without an indirect bearing upon practice. The interest in our subject is not merely scientific or curious. There are strange moral phenomena which, like the variations of the magnetic needle, demand explanation, or if unexplained, leave a painful sense of insecurity as regards the stability of moral standards. Thus, while conscience is commonly regarded as infallible, like a voice of God in each man's soul, instances happen to the watchful observer where conscience, though punctiliously followed, brings us up suddenly with the shock of having committed obvious injustice; the supposed duty, for refusing which we had suffered remorse, proves not to have been a duty; or more subtly still, we find ourselves oppressed with guilt, not merely for overt acts, which we might have controlled, but for dispositions and moral tendencies which we did not personally incur, but doubtless inherited. Often, again, when blaming men's vices, we are urged in justice to inquire the limits of their responsibility, and are reminded that our own happy moral superiority depends largely at least upon the circumstances of our Books, Fiction~~General, The-Problem-of-Duty~~Charles-Fletcher-Dole, 999999999, The Problem Of Duty, Charles Fletcher Dole, 117323957X, Nabu Press, , , , , Nabu Press<

ISBN: 9781173239572

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:THE… mais…

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:THE PROBLEM OF DUTY: A STUDY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF CONDUCT. In most cases of ordinary life it is unnecessary to inquire into the nature of duty, or to question the absoluteness of conscience; it is not even necessary to have a definite moral philosophy at all. As we do not need to know the precise operation of the great organs of our body, the heart and the lungs, but their healthiest work goes on without interruption by the interrogatories of consciousness, so our conscience ordinarily does best service when we simply obey its demands. And yet the discussion of the philosophy of duty, which we justly regard as unprofitable when compared with the practice of duty, is not without an indirect bearing upon practice. The interest in our subject is not merely scientific or curious. There are strange moral phenomena which, like the variations of the magnetic needle, demand explanation, or if unexplained, leave a painful sense of insecurity as regards the stability of moral standards. Thus, while conscience is commonly regarded as infallible, like a voice of God in each man's soul, instances happen to the watchful observer where conscience, though punctiliously followed, brings us up suddenly with the shock of having committed obvious injustice; the supposed duty, for refusing which we had suffered remorse, proves not to have been a duty; or more subtly still, we find ourselves oppressed with guilt, not merely for overt acts, which we might have controlled, but for dispositions and moral tendencies which we did not personally incur, but doubtless inherited. Often, again, when blaming men's vices, we are urged in justice to inquire the limits of their responsibility, and are reminded that our own happy moral superiority depends largely at least upon the circumstances of our Books Books ~~ Fiction~~ General The-Problem-of-Duty~~Charles-Fletcher-Dole Nabu Press<

ISBN: 9781173239572

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