Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
The Weight of the Soul: 7 Unsettling Ideas from Simone Weil’s Gravity and Grace Most spiritual books promise consolation. Simone Lire la suite
moral philosophy
W. R. Sorley’s Review on Esquisse d’une morale sans obligation ni sanction by Jean-Marie Guyau
Mind, Vol. 10, No. 38 (Apr., 1885), pp. 276-281. This is an interesting and valuable essay towards the establishment of
(Review) by H. W. Wright of « Philosophy and the Social Problem » by Will Durant.
The ethical theory on which the argument of this book is based is that virtue is intelligence because intelligence gives
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(Review) Jean-Marie Guyau, Esquisse d’une morale sans obligation ni sanction
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
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