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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. MATTER AND WILL. There appears, then, to be no doubt, that however much morality may be due to the co-operation of the subjective consciousness of mankind, it cannot be entirely created by that consciousness. It is perhaps unnecessary to say that this holds true not only of the empirically-ascertained consciousness of any single individual, but also of consciousness as the possession or spirit of humanity at large. No one probably in his senses would affirm that he, as one individual Ego, or that any other member of the human race, created morality. This excessive subjective relativity of morals could only be found to be the doctrine of one of those early Sophists whom Plato first travesties and then laughs at. Still it might be maintained, and it has been maintained, that morality was a creation of the impersonal and general consciousness of humanity. The doctrines have been laid down that humanity by means of the evolution of intelligence gradually formulates an ethical ideal, that it lays on itself the obstacles, the conquest of which constitutes its morality; that it puts on its own shoulders the burden which it calls Duty and Eesponsibility. It is an attractivetheory, for it seems to explain many of our difficulties; it brings, for instance, man's moral activity into line with his activity in speculative knowledge. To Fichte and to Kant, the Self, which was at the bottom of all our synthetic activity in constructing for us the world as we know it, was also at the bottom of our practical energy in formulating the moral law. But if there be any truth in our previous discussion, it would appear in the first place that consciousness itself is impossible without the presupposition of something not itself, against which it has to react; and in the second place, ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217196437
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217196438
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 159 gr


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