A History of Western Philosophy

He could say that he knows what is good by an ethical intuition, but he will not say this, because it sounds too Kantian. What h ...

held good in past ages, when aristocracy was unquestioned. The Egyptian government was conducted on Nietzschean principles for s ...

trivial people suffer? Or, for that matter, because great men suffer? Trivial people suffer trivially, great men suffer greatly, ...

Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admire ...

of a movement of this sort. He was born in 1748, but did not become a Radical till 1808. He was painfully shy, and could not wit ...

he wished to establish a code of laws--and, more generally, a social system--which would automatically make men virtuous. His se ...

the imprescriptible rights of man, nonsense on stilts. When the French revolutionaries made their "Déclaration des droits de l' ...

pain the only evil. But like Epicurus he valued moderate pleasure most. He thought intellectual enjoyments the best and temperan ...

lator shall pursue the pleasure of mankind in general? Bentham's own instinctive benevolence (which his psychological theories p ...

pleasure from achieving my wish; in this sense, whatever I desire is a pleasure, and it may be said, though somewhat loosely, th ...

His ethic differs from that of the utilitarians, since it holds that only a minority of the human race have ethical importance-- ...

assimilated, to something much more like Nietzsche's philosophy than like Bentham's. These developments, however, belong to a la ...

of civilized society; worse than the overwhelming deluge of Huns and Tartars." Socialism, in so far as it is only political or e ...

to whom he remained devoted throughout his life. At the university he was influenced by the still prevalent Hegelianism, as also ...

Knowledge in the old sense of passive contemplation is an unreal abstraction; the process that really takes place is one of hand ...

is the driving force. But it is matter in the peculiar sense that we have been considering, not the wholly dehumanized matter of ...

dustrial State. This, I think, is both true and important. I think, however, that Marx is wrong in two respects. First, the soci ...

accepted by Descartes, refuted by Kant, and reinstated by Hegel. I think it may be said quite decisively that, as a result of an ...

tory in war does not always go to the side with the greatest economic resources. Marx fitted his philosophy of history into a mo ...

professed himself an atheist, but retained a cosmic optimism which only theism could justify. Broadly speaking, all the elements ...