A Philosophical Introduction to Ethics An Advocacy of the Spiritual Principle I
A Philosophical Introduction to Ethics An Advocacy of the Spiritual Principle I
William Ralph Boyce Gibson
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On this view every self- conscious act is intrinsically self-determined, self- determined by self-appropriated motives. Some analogies may help to illustrate this view. A plant is intrinsically self-determined in so far as it can tolerate nothing alien to its organic nature. The inorganic salts, etc. , which are its food become so only after subtle transmutation, through digestive and assimilative processes, into organic products. Such processes are usually referred to by biologists as " vital ...processes. " They are due to the character- istic activities of living cells. Biologists are con- stantly stumbling across this vital agency in all that is most inward in the subject they study. " In studying digestion we reach an understanding of everything until we come to the active, vital property of the gland-cells in secreting. In study- ing absorption we understand the process until * As Dr. Rashdall well points out, this difficulty is not met by Professor Royce in his great attempt to conciliate the world and the individual.
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