Word: moralizing
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Professor Josiah Royce will give the first lecture in his afternoon course in philosophy for teachers today at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson H. The general subject of the course is an "Introduction to Ethics. (Ideals and the reason for their choice. Ethics of Individualism. What constituted welfare? The moral training of the young. The relations between morality and religion...
...reasoning is the assumption that the life of action is necessarily dissociated from the life of contemplation, and vice versa. R. Altrocchi's "Western Fable" is impressive. "Old Doc. Barber" has a dramatic way of telling his story and his simple, if uncouth, language adds force to the moral. The point of the story, though not novel, is certainly unusual. It reminds one of Bret Harte, or to compare small things with great, of Goethe's "The God and the Rayadere." L. Simonson's "Death and the Young Man" is a fairly successful attempt at a modern reproduction...
Philosophy--Introduction to Ethics. (Ideals and the reason for their choice. Ethics of individualism. What constitutes welfare? The moral training of the young. The relations between morality and religion.) Professor Royce. Thirty lectures on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons at 4.30, beginning November 7. This course was previously announced for Wednesday and Friday...
...eternally perplexing problem of Progress, it presents rather the difficulties in the way of answering the question,--"Has mankind on the whole advanced?"--than any actual definition or answer. Mr. Bryce points out that material progress, which is obvious and easy to determine, by no means involves intellectual and moral progress. The sum of human happiness, which ought to be a certain index of progress, cannot possibly be measured, either as to quantity or quality. The conclusion, as stated by Mr. Bryce in his final paragraph, is scarcely gratifying to the generally cock-sure twentieth century optimist. "The bark that...
George H. Palmer '64, Alford professor of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity in the University, will preach in Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. After leaving Harvard, Professor Palmer studied at the University of Tubingen and at the Andover Theological Seminary. He returned to Harvard in 1873 as assistant professor of philosophy, was appointed professor in 1883 and Alford professor in 1889. In 1894 he was awarded the degree of LL.D. by the University of Michigan...