A Sketch of Morality Independent of Obligation Or Sanction
The book A Sketch of Morality Independent of Obligation Or Sanction was written by author Guyau, Jean-Marie, 1854-1888 Here you can read free online of A Sketch of Morality Independent of Obligation Or Sanction book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Sketch of Morality Independent of Obligation Or Sanction a good or bad book?
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Moreover, there is no duty unless it be towards somebody. The theologians were only half wrong in representing duty as addressing itself to the divine will ; there, at least, was some one behind the obligation. Now, in this synthesis of the real indissolubility of matter and form, is the sentiment of obligation still only formal? We believe, from experience, that the sentiment of obligation is not connected with the representation of law as formal law, but is connected with law by reason of its... evident E 50 MORALITY INDEPENDENT OF OBLIGATION OR SANCTION. subject-matter and of its aim. Law as law can only be grasped by our mind through its universality ; but to this precept, " Act in such a way that your maxim may become a universal law," no sentiment of obligation whatever will attach itself, so long as there is no question of social life and the deep inclinations awakened by it, so long as we do not conceive the universality of something, some end, some good, which may be the object of a sentiment.
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