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A branch of philosophy, the inquiry by human reason into the ultimate whys causes, and reasons of all things. |
Ethics |
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Supreme goal and purpose |
Happiness |
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The boundless good, bliss or beatitude attained only by good upright living |
Absolute infinite good |
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Purpose for which act is done |
End of an act |
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When all the human acts of men are done for the one last end just indicated |
Happiness |
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The natural desire for life exemplified and made manifest in the first law o nature |
Self preservation |
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Another object of a fundamental craving of every human being, bc human has an insatiable thirst for knowledge |
Truth |
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Fundamental craving for affection |
Love |
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He said "while the beast is made with a bent future so as to look ever at the mud,... " |
Ovid "Metamorphoses" |
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"Life is not merely a vibrating or pulsating activity ...." |
"Scratches on the Sand" (spectator) |
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"Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom" |
Herbert |
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"O happiness, our being's aim and end" |
Alexander Pope |
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"For thyself, o god, thou has made us and our hearts will be restless until it rests on thee" |
Augustine from Confessiones |
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Defines beauty as a thing that, delights not only man's eyes and ears and his other senses of perception but his whole soul |
Aquinas |
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"Too late have o know thee" |
St ausgustine, confessions |
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The greatest of the romantic poets, truth and beauty are one and inseparable. "Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, that is all we have to know" |
John Keats, ode to the grecian urn |
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The abiding breath and blessing of the natural law embedded in man's nature, enshrined in man's conscience and enthrones as the rule of man's actions |
Peace |
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Means befitting man's nature |
Good |
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Means acts in accordance to nature (golden principle) |
Agere sequitur esse |
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Act which is natural to man as a human being endowed primarily with reason and will |
Good act |
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Act is that one which does not befit man's nature |
Bad act |
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The ultimate reason why action is good or bad |
Divine Nature |
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Aside from complicated nature, it is not one isolated from the rest of things in universe |
Human nature |
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Basis of naturallaw |
Natural order |
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One for all the same men |
Human nature |
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Represent extreme views on nature of man |
Fallacy of extremism |
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He thought or wished that man is pure reason and built a moral system on this one sided premise |
Immanuel Kant |
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Considered man as please seeking animals as. If pleasure or satisfaction were the end of man and the norm of morality |
Hedonists, utilitarians and cohorts |
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He considered man only as matter, nothing else and taught in purely material in ethics divorced from god |
Karl Marx |
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He thought of man merely as a bundle of sex drives |
Sigmund Freud |
