Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic

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Macmillan and Company, limited, 1913 - Economic policy - 591 pages
This work forms the third vol of the author's Filosofia come scienza dello spirito in the Italian original.

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Page 588 - For its opposite, far from being heterogeneous and different, is flesh of the flesh and blood of the blood of the concept itself, as negation is of affirmation.
Page 279 - ... si je connaissais toujours clairement ce qui est vrai et ce qui est bon, je ne serais jamais en peine de délibérer quel jugement et quel choix je devrais faire ; et ainsi je serais entièrement libre sans jamais être indifférent.
Page 232 - Nous tromper dans nos entreprises* C'est à quoi nous sommes sujets; Le matin je fais des projets. Et le long du jour des sottises.
Page 312 - The economic activity is that which wills and effects only what corresponds to the conditions of fact in which a man finds himself; the ethical activity is that which, although it corresponds to these conditions, also refers to something that transcends them. To the first correspond what are called individual ends, to the second universal ends...
Page 258 - The very yearning, the infinity of our desire, is proof of the infinity of that progress. The plant dreams of the animal, the animal of man, man of superman ; for this, too, is a reality, if it be reality that with every historical movement man surpasses himself.
Page 511 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house nor his wife nor his servant nor his maiden nor anything that is your neighbour's.
Page 165 - ... c'est à savoir de cela seul que la volonté étant beaucoup plus ample et plus étendue que l'entendement, je ne la contiens pas dans les mêmes limites, mais que je l'étends aussi aux choses que je n'entends pas ; auxquelles étant de soi indifférente, elle s'égare fort aisément, et choisit le faux pour le vrai et le mal pour le bien; ce qui fait que je me trompe et que je pèche.
Page 371 - ... numerical conception. Economic science then is a mathematic applied to the concept of human action and to its subspecies. It does not inquire what human action is, but having posited certain concepts of action, it creates formulae for the prompt recognition of the necessary connections.8 8.
Page 277 - Quidquid (ergo) nobis in natura ridiculum, absurdum aut malum videtur, id inde venit, quod res tantum ex parte novimus, totiusque naturae ordinem et cohaerentiam maxima ex parte ignoramus, et quod omnia ex usu nostrae rationis dirigi volumus, cum tamen id, quod ratio malum esse dictat, non malum sit respectu ordinis et legum universae naturae, sed tantum solius nostrae naturae legum respectu...

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