Sketch of a New Utilitarianism: Including a Criticism of the Ordinary Argument From Design and Other Matter (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The outlines of it were reached at first without any acquaint ance with German philosophy, with the exception of Kant. It appears, however, as if what is here termed the Mysterious Power and the universe-soul is not altogether unlike the Will of Schopenhauer, the Unconscious of Hartmann, and the Absolute Ego of Schelling, in some broad respects. Yet the aspect in which it presents itself - rising from the quarter of pleasure-and pain facts - is totally different from that of any such philosophy, and its genesis is of a source apart from everything German for the course of thinking which led to it is a strict descendant of British methods, and in nearest genealogy - as far as from any distinct author - from John Stuart Mill St. Mill as Paul Janet innocently styles him. The British spirit Seek the facts - infuses it, though the statements in these papers are, for brevity's sake, docked of detail and illustration. Moreover, not only does it claim to be founded on facts, but it asks to be fol lowed Out further by inductive methods. If the system prove not too crude. It may have a certain interest for this reason of descent, if no other.

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