 | Science - 1909 - 636 pages
...work, because the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay... | |
 | J. W. Burrow - Political Science - 1966 - 326 pages
...Spencer wrote: 'The establishment of rules of right conduct as a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given...the secularisation of morals is becoming imperative. '3 The final volume of the Synthetic Philosophy was The Principles of Ethics and at the beginning of... | |
 | Laurence Lampert - Philosophy - 1993 - 500 pages
...the last man from the perspective of its advocate. Spencer shared a great deal with Nietzsche: "Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative." But Spencer assumed that European humanity had arrived... | |
 | Donald N. Levine - Social Science - 1995 - 379 pages
...finding for the principles of right and wrong in conduct at large, a scientific basis. Now that the moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay... | |
 | John Offer - Philosophy - 2000 - 696 pages
...work of his "Synthetic Philosophy" — the Principles of Ethics — Spencer (1966a, l:iv) indicates that "moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin." The current and future problem, a problem of social order and stability, lies in the filling of the social... | |
 | Bert N. Adams, R. A. Sydie - Social Science - 2001 - 672 pages
...that of finding for the principles of right and wrong in conduct at large, a scientific basis. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative" i1879, 1:v-vi). Spencer's important legacy was his... | |
 | Bert N. Adams, R A Sydie - Social Science - 2002 - 390 pages
...that of finding for the principles of right and wrong in conduct at large, a scientific basis. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative" f1879, 1:v-vi). Spencer's important legacy was his... | |
 | Philip J. Hughes, Brian Howe, Philip Hughes - Australia - 2003 - 228 pages
...was a major issue for the Victorians. As Spencer put it in a book entitled The Data on Ethics, Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given...secularisation of morals is becoming imperative.' For Spencer this was a social and cultural necessity, not a counsel of despair. If the authority of... | |
 | Martin Fichman - Science - 2010 - 393 pages
...because the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is now a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed sacred origin, the secularization of morals is becoming imperative." Spencer described the opposite poles of the Victorian... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1879 - 624 pages
...work, because the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now that moral injunctions are losing the authority given...the secularisation of morals is becoming imperative. Few things can happen more disastrous than the decay and death of a regulative system no longer fit,... | |
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I am the more anxious to indicate in outline, if I cannot complete, this final work, because the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is a pressing need. Now, that moral injunctions are losing the authority given by their supposed... 
