 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1809 - 532 pages
...plus deshonnete, crut devoir employer toute la puissance de la beaute1.' — De TEsprit, iL 14 * ' The contest between the morality which appeals to...against the deification of mere opinion and habit ' (Mill's Dissertations, vol. ii. p. 472) ; a passage with a true Bentham ring. See, too, vol. ip 158.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1859 - 576 pages
...which is tolerably general may be erected into a moral law, binding, under penalties, on all mankind. The contest between the morality which appeals to...against the deification of mere opinion and habit. The doctrine that the existing order of things is the natural order, and that, being natural, all innovation... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1859 - 576 pages
...which is tolerably general may be erected into a moral law, binding, under penalties, on all mankind. The contest between the morality which appeals to...against the deification of mere opinion and habit. The doctrine that the existing order of things is the natural order, and that, being natural, all innovation... | |
 | James Martineau - Philosophy - 1866 - 446 pages
...enough to catch his thought and answer what he means. He more than once asserts, for instance, that "the contest between the morality which appeals to...against the deification of mere opinion and habit" (vol. ii. p. 472). "Why so? Why should the appeal to a common Conscience in mankind be more egoistic... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ethics - 1869 - 526 pages
...plus deshonnete, crut devoir employer toute la puissance de la beaul<\' — De f Esprit, ii. 14. * ' The contest between the morality which appeals to...against the deification of mere opinion and habit ' (Mill's Dissertations, vol. ii. p. 472) ; a passage with a true Bentham ring. See, too, vol. ip 158.... | |
 | Criticism - 1873 - 808 pages
...determination of principles with the a priori determination of specific action. He declares that " the contest between the morality which appeals to...against the deification of mere opinion and habit" (vol. iii, p. 154). This, as we have sought to show, is true of the d priori determination of specific... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - Christian ethics - 1873 - 336 pages
...substitution of a regard to consequences for a mere unreasoning sentiment or feeling." And again, that " the contest between the morality which appeals to...against the deification of mere opinion and habit." In reality, it is needful both to rise and to descend ; to gaze on the skies above, and also to tread... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1873 - 408 pages
...tolerably general may be erected into a moral law, binding, under penalties, on all mankind.-''The contest between the morality which appeals to an external...against the deification of mere opinion and habit. The doctrine that the existing order of things is the natural order, and that, being natural, all innovation... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - Philosophy - 1874 - 330 pages
...which is tolerably general, may be erected into a moral law, binding under penalties on all mankind... The contest between the morality which appeals to...against the deification of mere opinion and habit. The doctrine that the existing order of things is the natural order is as vicious in morals as in physics,... | |
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The contest between the morality which appeals to an external standard, and that which grounds itself on internal conviction, is the contest of progressive morality against stationary — of reason and argument against the deification of mere opinion... 
