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ETHICS
performance by others of certain kinds of action; and
"theopathy", or feeling for God, because, since God is
the source ofall good things, every " association ofpleasure "
will have for its centre God's nature. Thus the love of God
is implied at the very lowest stage of Hartley's hierarchy
of motives in love of pleasure, and is in fact the love of
pleasure made explicit. Each rung in this ladder of motives
is, as it were, formed out of the preceding rungs, as a
miser's motive, money for its own sake, is constituted from
his motive, things which money can buy, which is itself
constituted from the motive, pleasant sensations resulting
from possession and enjoyment of the things that money
can buy. Applied to the case of ethics, the analysis is put
forward as a demonstration of the way in which, what
are apparently ethical sentiments, love of virtue for its
own sake, the feeling of moral obligation, or the approval
of unselfishness, arise on the basis of a purely egoistical
psychology.
Bocks
#HOBBES, THOMAS. Leviathan.
MAHDEVILLE, BERNARD. The Fable of the Beet.
SPINOZA, BARUCH. Ethics (Everyman edition), especially Parts
III and IV.
HUME, DAVID. Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morali.
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SPENCER, HERBERT. Social Statics. Principles of Ethics, especially
Part I, Data of Ethics.
STEPHEN, LESLIE. The Science of Ethics.
WESTBRMARCK, E. The Origin and Development of Moral Ideas.
HOBHOUSE, L. T. Morals in Evolution.
HARTLEY, DAVID. Observations on Man.
MILL, JAMES. An Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind.
SAMUEL, SIR HERBERT. Practical Ethics (Home University
Library), is a good modern statement of the lubjcctivist
point of view.