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...MONDAY.Harvard Philosophical Club. Certain Ideals of right Conduct and their Value for Society. Dr. Royce. Sever...
...have thought, the true basis of moral action, then the utilitarian view would appear to be the only right one. Sympathy with suffering would increase with the suffering that was the object of sympathy, and would estimate it as a mass. But is sympathy the real basis of moral conduct? One of the best arguments in favor of mere sympathy as the principle of morals is Schopenhauer's. He insists that sympathy or pity is unselfish, is in fact the only non-egoistic impulse, and so is the only possible moral principle. Is this, however, true? Is pity or sympathy...
...figures, probably underestimated, 12,000. This ended a movement of which the first part was one of the best executed moves in the history of war, but which closed as a dismal failure. There is no doubt of the gallant conduct of the troops throughout. The blame rests chiefly on hooker, and on Howard for being surprised on the right flank...
...took occasion to say recently, the pity of the students for the ignorance of the professors in regard to athletics, was altogether too strongly tinctured with contempt. The counsel of a dyspeptic professor on the conduct of undergraduate sports is calculated to excite the derision and despite of the sporting undergraduate. The professor is the disinterested observer of Lucretius, who, from the shore, inspects the great labor of another in the vaist of the boat, or who cushions the top rail of a fence, and from that tranquil eminence looks out from under an umbrella, and through spectacles probably green...
Harvard Philosophical Club. Certain Ideals of Right Conduct and their value for Society. Dr. Royce. Sever...