[Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain]@TWC D-Link bookMoral Science; A Compendium of Ethics PART II 232/699
In one place, he seems to say, that the Sentiment of Power is also involved.
It is the great defect of his system that he takes so little account of the Social affections, whether natural or acquired. III .-- His Theory of Happiness, or the Summum Bonum, would follow from his analysis of the Feelings and Will.
But Felicity being a continual progress in desire, and consisting less in present enjoyment than in _assuring_ the way of future desire, the chief element in it is the Sense of Power. IV .-- A Moral Code is minutely detailed under the name of Laws of Nature, in force in the Natural State under Divine Sanction.
It inculcates all the common virtues, and makes little or no departure from the usually received maxims. V .-- The relation of Ethics to Politics is the closest imaginable.
Not even Society, as commonly understood, but only the established civil authority, is the source of rules of conduct.
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