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(Review) Jean-Marie Guyau, Esquisse d’une morale sans obligation ni sanction

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W. R. Sorley’s Review on Esquisse d’une Morale sans Obligation ni Sanction by Jean-Marie Guyau. Revue Philosophique de la France et de l’Étranger, T. 19 (janvier à juin 1885), pp. 319-328.   This is an interesting and valuable essay towards the establishment of a “scientific” ethics. The author, who is already favourably known for what he has done in recording the history of ethics, has now set himself to make material for that history.[1] He does not, indeed, break absolutely new ground, for Spencer, Simcox, Stephen and Höffding are among his predecessors. Yet he has ideas of his own, both Lire la suite

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(Critique) Jean-Marie Guyau, Esquisse d’une morale sans obligation ni sanction

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Une critique de Emile Boirac sur Esquisse d’une morale sans obligation ni sanction de Jean-Marie Guyau. Revue Philosophique de la France et de l’Étranger, T. 19 (janvier à juin 1885), pp. 319-328.   La morale traverse une crise : cette nouvelle encore récente est déjà presque un lieu commun. A vrai dire, la crise menaçait depuis longtemps. On eût pu la prévoir, dès le jour où Descartes imposait à l’esprit humain cette règle de tenir pour suspecte toute idée, non examinée et pour douteuse toute idée obscure après examen. Est-ce parce qu’il la prévoyait lui-même que Descartes s’était fait une

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(Review) Nietzsche, The Thinker.

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Wilbur Marshall Urban’s Review[1]   Perhaps the most melancholy phase of the storm and stress through which the English-speaking peoples have been passing is the Nietzsche horror which seems to have taken possession of them body and soul. It was not so long ago that Mr. Gilbert Chesterton, with that finality which so easily besets him, told us that the ‘superman’ makes any discussion absurd into which he enters, and most of us were well pleased with this sign of robust English sense. We were told that art is the last refuge of the overman and, never having taken art

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