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1. On theories depending on moral sentiment or intuition, |
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(a) Ethical value of moral sentiments affected by their origin, |
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(b) Organic character of moral sentiments, |
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Resultant attitude of evolutionism to intuitionism, |
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2. On egoism: relation of egoism to altruism, |
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(a) Social nature of the individual, |
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(b) Limits to conciliation of egoism and altruism, |
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(α) Continued existence of competition, |
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(β) Different and conflicting degrees of altruism, |
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(γ) Altruism of interest and altruism of motive, |
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(δ) Weakness of altruistic feelings, |
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(c) Tendency of evolution opposed to egoism, |
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Evolution not the basis of psychological hedonism, |
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Nor of ethical hedonism, |
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3. On utilitarianism, |
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Modification of the utilitarian method, |
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And of its principle, |
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Evolutionist objections to utilitarianism, |
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(a) As prescribing an unprogressive ideal, |
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(b) As a theory of consequences, |
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(c) As related solely to sensibility, |
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HEDONISM AND EVOLUTIONISM. |
1. Alliance of evolutionism and hedonism, |
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(a) From interpreting greatest happiness by the laws of life, |
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(b) From interpreting life by pleasure, |
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2. Evolutionist argument for concomitance of life and pleasure, |
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3. Objections to this argument, |
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(a) That life cannot bring more pleasure than pain, |
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(α) From the negative nature of pleasure, |
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(β) From the facts of human life, |
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(b) That the evolution of life does not uniformly tend to pleasure, |
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(α) Incompleteness of the evolutionist argument, |
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