Les dades de l'ètica
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Cita aquesta obra
- APAHerbert Spencer. (n.d.). The Data of Ethics [Les dades de l'ètica]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/herbert-spencer/the-data-of-ethics
- MLAHerbert Spencer. The Data of Ethics [Les dades de l'ètica]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/herbert-spencer/the-data-of-ethics.
- ChicagoHerbert Spencer. The Data of Ethics [Les dades de l'ètica]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/herbert-spencer/the-data-of-ethics.
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De què tracta
El llibre del 1879 en què Spencer va intentar fundar la moral sobre la biologia: la conducta bona es la que afavoreix la vida, i l'evolucio ens hi porta.
Context i història
Es la primera part del seu sistema d'etica, i el va publicar avancat perque temia morir sense escriure'l. L'argument encadena tres passos: la conducta es una adaptacio de mitjans a fins; una conducta es mes evolucionada com millor manté la vida de qui la fa, dels seus fills i dels seus semblants; i, per tant, el desenvolupament moral consisteix a fer que aquestes tres coses deixin de xocar. Spencer creia que l'evolucio hi porta sola i que arribaria un estat on el deure ja no caldria perque fer el be seria plaent. Es una de les temptatives mes serioses de derivar l'«ha de ser» del «es», i G. E. Moore la va agafar precisament com a exemple del que ell va anomenar la fal·lacia naturalista.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
and supernatural morality, it has become the policy to exaggerate into fundamental antagonisms. In pursuance of this policy, there will probably be singled out for reprobation from this volume, doctrines which, taken by themselves, may readily be made to seem utterly wrong. With a view to clearness, I have treated separately some correlative aspects of conduct, drawing conclusions either of which becomes untrue if divorced from the other; and have thus given abundant opportunity for misrepresentation. The relations of this work to works preceding it in the series are such as to involve frequent reference. Containing, as it does, the outcome of principles set forth in each of them, I have found it impracticable to dispense with re-statements of those principles. Further, the presentation of them in their relations to different ethical theories, has made it needful, in every case, briefly to remind the reader what they are, and how they are derived. Hence an amount of repetition which to some will probably appear tedious. I do not, however, much regret this almost unavoidable result; for only by varied iteration can alien conceptions be forced on reluctant minds. _June_, 1879. THE DATA OF ETHICS. CHAPTER I. CONDUCT IN GENERAL. § 1. The doctrine that correlatives imply one another--that a father cannot be thought of without thinking of a child, and that there can be no consciousness of superior without a consciousness of inferior--has for one of its common examples the necessary connection between the conceptions of whole and part. Beyond the primary truth that no idea of a whole can be framed without a nascent idea of parts constituting it, and that no idea of a part can be framed without a nascent idea of some whole to which it belongs, there is the secondary truth that there can be no correct idea of a part without a correct idea of the correlative whole.…