Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hume's Treatise of Human Nature...
Hume's Treatise of Human Nature...
Hume's Treatise of Human Nature...
Hume's Treatise of Human Nature...
...third service of ethics is to give us a clear insight into social questions. Some economists say that only on the supposition that self-interest is the ruling human motive, is the greater part of economical laws founded. It is not difficult to see the inevitable result of the system of self interest, the weakest perishing, the strongest leading a life of little more than nervous prosperity. The problem is to bring to the hearts of men the fact that disregard of ethics is the cause of earthly misery. Social disorder can be changed to happiness; there...