Ethics, General and Special
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- Ethics, General and Special
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- 1920
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Ethics, General and Special
Author: Hill, Owen A. (Owen Aloysius), 1863-1930
Year: 1920
CONTENTS PART I GENERAL ETHICS Introduction Pages 1-7 Thesis I. Every agent works unto an end. This end is truly a cause. The will in all its deliberate movements has some definite last end, whether strictly or relatively such Pages 7-18 Thesis II. Man of his very nature desires complete happiness. Complete happiness is man's absolutely last end subjectively taken. This natural desire must be possible of fulfillment. No created good can secure to man complete happiness. The possession of God is alone complete happiness, and God ia man's absolutely last end objectively taken Pages 18-28 Thesis III. Man's destiny in this life, his supremest happiness on earth, consists in drawing closer and closer to his last end by the establishment of moral rectitude in his actions. Between good and bad in the moral order, between right and wrong, an essential, intrinsic difference exists. The immediate measure of moral rectitude is the objective order of things as understood by the intellect; the mediate measure is God's wisdom and goodness Pages 28-41 Thesis IV. A Natural Law, unchangeable, universal, eternal, has place in man ; its complete and full sanction is reserved for the next life; and et
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