Hints Toward a Theory of Ethics (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Hints Toward a Theory of Ethics I. If the question were put to the ordinary man in the street: "Why do you do that which is unpleasant?" he probably would reply: "Because I think I must, " or for "must" he might substitute "ought." There you have ethics in a sentence. It is a rough paraphrase from the opposite point of view of St. Paul's famous statement: "What I would that I do not, but what I hate that I do." It is the eternal conflict of the ought of duty and the desire of bodily appetite. It is a recognition of that ethical antithesis between what we call by the general name, duty, and pleasure, an antithesis which, on a more careful consideration, will reveal itself as in reality a conflict between different pleasures: for the "ought" or "must" of duty, properly understood, is as essentially a creature of pleasure and pain as the most sensual of pleasures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.