Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, Based On the Doctrine of Evolution, With Criticisms On the Positive Philosophy;
Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, Based On the Doctrine of Evolution, With Criticisms On the Positive Philosophy;
Fiske, John, 1842-1901
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XXII.] GENESIS OF MAN, MORALLY. 327 moral sense for analyzing which our individual experience does not afford the requisite data, and which must there- fore be regarded as ultimate for each individual, it is never- theless open to us to inquire into the emotional antecedents of this organized moral sense as exhibited in ancestral types of psychical life. The inquiry will result in the conviction that the moral sense is not ultimate, but derivative, and that it has been built up out of slowly or...ganized experiences of pleasures and pains. But before we can proceed directly upon the course thus marked out, it is necessary that we should determine what are meant by pleasures and pains. What are the common characteristics, on the one hand, of the states of conscious- ness which we call pleasures, and, on the other hand, of the states of consciousness which we call pains ? According to Sir William Hamilton, *' pleasure is a reflex of the sponta- neous and unimpeded exertion of a power of whose energy we are conscious ; pain is a reflex of the overstrained or re- pressed exertion of such a power." That this theory, which is nearly identical with that of Aristotle, is inadequate to accoimt for all the phenomena of pleasure and pain, has been, I think, conclusively proved by Mr.
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