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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III SOCIAL GOOD The Epicurean Atticus had evidently expressed great delight in the daughter born to him in his mature years. Cicero uses this conceded experience of the reality and power of the parental instinct to controvert the individualistic ethics of the Epicureans. We have here, he argues, the ultimate bond that unites man to man and makes human society possible. The Epicureans are wrong in referring everything to self and denying the existence of altruistic motives. The so-called goodness, which is based on individual utility instead of natural right, is not goodness at all, but only shrewdness.1 This is the same derivation of the social virtues from the natural love of offspring which we find elaborated in Cicero's philosophical works (e. g., De Fin., 3, 19, 62-64; 5, 23, 65-67). Beginning with the family, the concentric circles ever widen, until all mankind are recognized as being bound together with natural ties, so that even on the ground of a common humanity the interests of all are to each an essential good (propter se expetendi sint, De Fin., 5, 23, 67); nay, the bonds reach farther than mere humanity, they embrace a cosmic commonwealth of gods and men in which the individual unit is, by reason and by nature, bound in his actions to take account of the all (De Fin., 3, 19, 64). Each social unit--family, friends, state, or race--presents itself as a good in at least three aspects which may logically, and sometimes practically, be distinguished, but which frequently tend to intermingle and coalesce. Friendship, for example, as a spring of action may be my desire for fellowship--my appreciation for what the friend is to me; or I may so far identify myself with my friend as to desire his welfare as an independent good without conscious thought...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217037129
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 42
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217037127
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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