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Chapter VI: The Ideal (3)

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Good
indefinable 6-16, 41, 79, 110-11, 142-4
= means to good 21, 24
the Absolute 183, 184, 186
the Human 183, 184, 186
mixed and unmixed 208, 209, 214, 215, 217, 219-20, 224
my own 97-9, 101, 170
‘private’ 99
_the_ 8-9, 18
‘Universal’ 99-102
Will 174-5, 179 _n._ 2, 180

Green, T. H. 139

Guyau, M. 46

Habit 171, 175-6, 177

Hatred 211, 214
of beautiful and good 211, 217, 225
of evil and ugly 178, 217, 218, 220, 221, 225

Health 42-3, 65, 157, 167

Heaven 115, 174, 183, 185, 195
upon Earth 186

Hedonism 39, 52, 59-63, 90-1, 96, 108-9, 174
Egoistic 18
Ethical 70, 144
Intuitionistic 59, 74-6, 144
Naturalistic 46, 50, 53, 54, 68, 104, 105
Psychological 18, 68, 69, 70, 73
Universalistic 103

Hegel 30, 34, 110

Heteronomous 127

Higher 48-9, 78

Hobbes 97

Honesty 175-6

Hypothetical laws 22, 155

Ideal
three meanings of 183-4
_the_ 183, 185, 205-7, 220-1

Idealistic 130, 205

Imagination, value of 193, 194, 196, 197, 210, 219, 220, 221, 224

Imperative 128

Industry 157, 167

Intention 179 _n._ 1

Interest 102
meaning of 97-8, 106, 170-1
dist. from ‘duty’ 170-1, 181

Intrinsic
evil 207, 213, 218, 224
value 17, 21, 25-30, 36, 147, 173-7, 187, 189, 207, 214-16, 222-4

Intuition
= proposition incapable of proof 59, 77, 108
in psychological sense 75, 79, 85, 92, 108, 144, 148-9, 173

Intuitionism
in Sidgwick’s sense 59, 76, 144
in proper sense 106, 148

Judgment
error of 192-3
two types of ethical 21, 23-7, 115, 146, 148, 222, 224

Justice 178

Justify 97, 101, 147, 163

Kant 110, 129
‘Copernican revolution’ 133
value of Good Will 174-5, 179 _n._ 2, 180
value of Happiness 174-5
theory of judgment 125
‘Kingdom of Ends’ 113
‘practical love’ 179
connection of ‘goodness’ with ‘will’ 126-8

Knowledge
involves truth of object 132, 134
involves belief 194
value of 82, 86, 194, 195, 196, 197, 199, 211, 221

Lasciviousness 209-10

Law
ethical 155
hypothetical 22, 155
legal 126, 128
moral 126-8, 146, 148, 160, 162, 165
natural 26, 29, 57, 126, 183, 186
scientific 22-3, 124, 155

Legal 126, 128

Leibniz 125

Life 15, 46, 50, 52, 156

Logical
dependence 61, 110, 118, 122, 139, 143-4
fallacy 140-1

Love
Christ and Kant on 179
of beautiful and good 177-9, 199, 204, 217, 224
of evil and ugly 209, 210, 211, 217, 225

Lucian 45

Lust 209-10, 218

Lying 154

Mackenzie, Prof. J. S. 114, 120

Material qualities, value of 204, 205-7, 221, 225

Matter, value of 205-7

Meaning, ‘to have no’ 31, 34-5

Means = cause or necessary condition 18, 21-3, 89, 180
dist. from ‘part of organic whole’ 27, 29-30, 32, 220
goodness as, dist. from intrinsic value 21, 24, 26, 27, 37, 72, 74,
79-81, 89, 90, 94-5, 106-7, 115, 118, 173-4, 178, 187, 195-6,
197-8, 216, 223
‘not justified by end’ 147, 163

Mental
beauty of 203-5, 225
value of 205-7

Mercy 178

Metaphysical 39, 58, 110-15, 139-40

Method
of discovering intrinsic value 20, 36, 59-60, 64, 89, 91, 92, 93, 95,
142-5, 173, 185-6, 187-8, 195, 197-8, 206-7, 209, 223
of discovering value as means 22-3, 146, 148-54, 172-3

Mill, J. S. 145
Hedonism 63-81, 108
naturalistic fallacy 40, 66-7, 69, 72-3, 74, 104, 108
Psychological Hedonism 68, 72, 73-4
quality of pleasure 77-81, 108
Utilitarianism 104-5

Moral
approbation 171
law 126-8, 146, 148, 160, 162, 165
obligation 128
sentiment 168, 178, 217-19

Motive 67, 70, 177, 178-80

Murder 148, 151, 154, 156-7, 178

Natural
laws 26, 29, 57, 126, 183, 186
objects and properties 13-14, 39-41, 58, 110-11
selection 47

Natural = normal 42-4, 58

Natural = necessary 44-5, 58

Naturalism 20, 40, 58, 144

Naturalistic
Ethics 39-41, 58, 59
fallacy 10, 13-14, 18-20, 38-9, 48, 57, 58, 61, 64, 66-7, 69, 72-3,
74, 104, 108, 114, 118, 124, 125, 139, 173, 176, 201
Hedonism 46, 50, 53, 54, 68, 104, 105

Nature 40-1, 110, 111, 112

Nature, life according to 41-2, 113

Nature, value of 188, 193, 195, 200, 206

Necessity
analytic 22, 33-4, 35, 220, 221
causal or natural 29, 31-2, 34, 186, 187

New Testament 177, 178, 179

Object
of cognition 141, 191, 192, 193, 211
of desire 68-70
natural 13-14, 39-41, 58, 110-11

Objective 82, 201

Obligation
moral 103, 128, 147

Obligatory 25, 148, 170

Organic relation, unity, whole
common usage 30-6
my own usage 27-31, 32-3, 36, 93, 96, 149, 184, 187, 189, 190, 202,
206, 208, 212, 215, 220, 223

Ought
to aim at 24-6, 100
to do 26, 105, 115, 116, 117, 127, 128, 140, 146, 148, 173, 180, 223
to be or exist 17, 115, 118, 127, 128, 148, 173, 180, 223

Pain 64, 65, 210, 212-4, 217, 222-3, 225

Particular 3-4

Perception 111, 112, 134, 136

Pessimism 51, 53, 156

Plato
on Egoism 98
on goods 178
on Hedonism 88
on value of Knowledge 199
on universal truths 111

Pleasure 12-13, 16
consciousness of 87-91, 109, 212
as criterion 91-2, 108
and desire 68-71, 73-4
and ‘pleasures’ 79
‘quality of’ 77-81
value of 39, 46, 50-4, 59-66, 71-2, 74-5, 79-81, 83, 85-96, 144,
146, 171, 173, 174, 188, 205, 212-14, 222-3

Pity 217, 221

Positive science 39

Possible action 150-1

Practical 216, 221
Ethics 115-18, 140, 146, 149, 151, 154, 180, 222
Philosophy 2

Practice 2, 20

Praise 171

Preference 77-9, 131

Promises 157

Property, respect of 157

Propositions, types of 123-6

Prove 11, 65, 66, 74, 75-7, 99, 112, 137, 141, 143, 145, 169, 181

Prudence 168
‘Maxim of’ 102-4

Psychological 11, 130, 140, 148
Hedonism 18, 68, 69, 70, 73

Punishment 164
retributive or vindictive 214, 215, 216, 221

Reason 143-4

Representative art 193

Reward 174

Right 18, 24-5, 105, 146, 180, 216, 218, 223
dist. from ‘duty’ 148
relation to expediency 167
externally 176-7
internally 179 _n._ 1

Romantic style 215-16

Rousseau 42

Sanctions 159, 164

Secondary qualities 206

Self-evidence 143, 144, 148, 181

Self-realisation 113, 114, 120, 188

Self-sacrifice 170

Sensation 134

Sensationalist 130

Sidgwick, Henry 145
value of beauty 81-4, 85-7
on Bentham 17-19
rationality of Egoism 99-103
‘good’ unanalysable 17
Hedonism 59, 63, 64, 81-7, 91-6, 108-9
‘method’ of Intuitionism 59, 92-4
value of knowledge 82, 86
neglects principle of organic wholes 93
pleasure as criterion 91-2, 94-5
quality of pleasure 77, 81
value of unconscious 81-4

Sins 161

Spencer, Herbert 46, 48-58

Spinoza 110, 113

Spiritual, value of 205-6

Summum Bonum 183, 205

Stoics 41, 110

Synthetic 7, 58, 143

Taste, error of 192-3, 211

Taylor, A. E. 60

Temperance 157, 168

Theodicies 220

Tragedy 219, 221

Truth
relation to existence 111, 124-5
cognition 130, 132-4, 136, 141, 196
knowledge 134, 194
types of 111-12, 124-5
value of 85-6, 193-200, 208, 210, 211, 212

Tyndall 40

Ugly 208, 209-11, 214, 216-19, 221

Ultimate end 51, 83, 85, 96-7, 99-102, 183, 189

Unity 222
organic, see ‘Organic’

Universal
Good 99-102
truths 21-3, 27, 57, 111, 126, 154-5, 181

Universalistic Hedonism 103

Useful 106, 146, 167

Utilitarianism 63, 96, 99, 104-7, 109

Utopias 183, 186

Value
intrinsic 17, 21, 25-30, 36, 147, 173-7, 187, 189, 207, 214-16, 222-4
as means 21, 174, 195-6
negative 215, 216

Vice 171, 209, 211

Virtue
definition of 171-3, 181, 223
three kinds of 175
mixed 221
relation to ‘duty’ 172
value of 83, 85, 86, 87, 173-80, 181-2, 217-19, 221-2

Volition
supposed coordination with cognition 129-30, 133, 135-6, 141
supposed bearing on Ethics 130, 136, 141

Whole
good as a 208, 214-16, 219, 221
good on the 214-16, 219, 220, 221
organic, see ‘Organic’

Wickedness 220

Will
as criterion of value 137-8
relation to duty 160, 161, 180
the Good 174-5, 179 _n._ 2, 180
supposed analogy to cognition 129-30, 135-6
supposed bearing on Ethics 126-7, 128-31, 135-9, 141

Wrong 180, 218, 223

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