"D'ye know, Hump," he said, with a slow seriousness which had in it an indefinable strain of sadness, "that this is the first time I have heard the word 'ethics' in the mouth of a man.
"At one time in my life," he continued, after another pause, "I dreamed that I might some day talk with men who used such language, that I might lift myself out of the place in life in which I had been born, and hold conversation and mingle with men who talked about just such things as ethics. And this is the first time I have ever heard the word pronounced.
But I did get something out of his Data of Ethics. There's where I ran across 'altruism,' and I remember now how it was used."
Ostensibly it is merely a continuation of the Ethics, but it comes to treat political questions from a purely political standpoint.
Nicomachean Ethics, 1819; mainly from text of Bekker, by D.
"Remember, I am enunciating biology and not sentimental
ethics. No state of slaves can stand - "
Like the ancient Sophists, he relegates the more important principles of
ethics to custom and probability.
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