Practical Essays by Alexander Bain
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Seemingly a self-contradiction. Butler's view of the disinterestedness of Appetite. Apart from pleasure and pain, Appetite would not move us. Parallel from other ends of pursuit--Health. Life has two aims--Happiness and Virtue--each to be sought directly on its own account. Errors connected with the WILL. I. Cost of energy, of Will. Need of a suitable physical confirmation. Courage, Prudence, Belief. II. Free-will a centre of various fallacies. Doctrines repudiated from the offence given to personal dignity. Operation of this on the history of Free-will. III. Departing from the usual rendering of a fact, treated as denying the fact. Metaphysical and Ethical examples. Alliance of Mind and Matter. |
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