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1 mag 2001 · Goodness means bringing about great benefit to individuals or whole groups. It too can come in an obvious form, like a heroic effort to save someone’s life, or great effort in pursuit of significant social change, or in smaller, persistent acts. Nations often act in selfish and destructive ways. But goodness by groups, small and large, does ...
4 feb 2023 · In the extract, Hyde is described to be an advocate of “deformity and decay”. This describes physical features of Hyde’s character that not only dehumanise him, but juxtapose his image with the quintessentially good Dr Jekyll. This is because Jekyll is described earlier in the story to be “a large, well-made, smooth-faced man”, with ...
23 set 2023 · Abstract. “The Nature of Good and Evil” addresses the relationship between Dewey’s metaphysics and his social ethics. The chapter focuses especially on wisdom, personality, and democracy, arguing that each term is directly tied to Dewey’s general ontological theory; the central object of wisdom is the “proportioned union” of generic ...
4P8: The knowledge of good and evil is nothing else but the emotions of pleasure or pain, in so far as we are conscious thereof. We call a thing good or evil, when it is of service or the reverse in preserving our being (IV. Def. i. and ii.), that is (III. vii.), when it increases or diminishes, helps or hinders, our power of activity.
23 feb 2023 · To some extent, then, Le Guin herself appears to endorse Daoist and Jungian approaches to her own work and to the fantastic more broadly, for example using language from both of these interpretive frameworks to connect her work with a more morally complex fairytale tradition: “Evil, then, appears in the fairytale not as something diametrically opposed to good, but as inextricably involved ...
THE MEANING OF GOOD AND EVIL.*. J. S. MACKENZIE. JHE object of this paper is to determine, as far as possible, the true significance of those ultimate con- ceptions that underlie the study of ethics. The importance of such an attempt can hardly be disputed: the probabil- ity of its success may be more open to question.
19 apr 2005 · v. 1. The moral criterion.v. 2. The individual and the society. Man and the universe
