Lectures On Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston
Lectures On Moral Science: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston
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Let us, then, first consider those powers which indicate ends.
In the conception of an end the primary element is not intellectual. If there were no original, no rational appre- hension of good involving desirableness, congruity, auto- matic tendency, impulse, appetency or craving, revealing some want to be satisfied, or capacity of enjoyment to be met, we could have no conception of an end. In our anal- ysis in this direction this is the last thing that we reach, and so is conditional for all ...the rest. The intellect is im- Digitized by Google 84 LECTURES ON MORAL SCIENCE.
plied. ITiere must be consciousness. Every mental oper- ation, whether perceptive or impulsive, must take place in the light of that. ..But consciousness being given, the im- pulse towards an end or the apprehension of it as having in it a good, is the primary element in our conception of an active, as distinguished from a contemplative being. With- out such impulse or apprehension, the objects we now seek might be known as they are in themselves, but not as ends for us.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Let us, then, first consider those powers which indicate ends.
In the conception of an end the primary element is not intellectual. If there were no original, no rational appre- hension of good involving desirableness, congruity, auto- matic tendency, impulse, appetency or craving, revealing some want to be satisfied, or capacity of enjoyment to be met, we could have no conception of an end. In our anal- ysis in this direction this is the last thing that we reach, and so is conditional for all ...the rest. The intellect is im- Digitized by Google 84 LECTURES ON MORAL SCIENCE.
plied. ITiere must be consciousness. Every mental oper- ation, whether perceptive or impulsive, must take place in the light of that. ..But consciousness being given, the im- pulse towards an end or the apprehension of it as having in it a good, is the primary element in our conception of an active, as distinguished from a contemplative being. With- out such impulse or apprehension, the objects we now seek might be known as they are in themselves, but not as ends for us.
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