Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Moreover, the ungentlemanly (?) element that is complained of in college men seldom, if ever, comes from the athletic set, but from those who have the least to do with athletics. We think it would be difficult to point out any moral evil that men receive from legitimate professional training. It is true that a few foolish and weak men have been persuaded to enter the professional arena, but that is no reason why the hundreds who do not should suffer for the faults of the very few. Men who are not able to resist the fascinating wiles of the ungentlemanly...
...lecture, after a brief review of the previous discussions, passed to the special question of the evening, a comparison of the Socialistic and Utilitarian moral ideals. The moral ideal of socialism views society as an organism, to be labored for as a whole, as a "body fitly framed together." The moral ideal of utilitarianism views society as a mass of individuals, whose happiness is to be treated as a mere aggregate or sum, this sum being rendered as large as possible. Which of these ideals is the right...
...lecturer began the comparison of the two, by saying that if the emotion of sympathy be, as many have thought, the true basis of moral action, then the utilitarian view would appear to be the only right one. Sympathy with suffering would increase with the suffering that was the object of sympathy, and would estimate it as a mass. But is sympathy the real basis of moral conduct? One of the best arguments in favor of mere sympathy as the principle of morals is Schopenhauer's. He insists that sympathy or pity is unselfish, is in fact the only...
...lecture closed with acceptance, its most general form of the moral ideal of the socialistic movements; but postponed any more concrete practical application until the next time. The final lecture of the course will be given on Monday, on "Practical Consequences of the Moral Ideal of Socialism...
...generally be called a return to socialism in the political life of England, of some continental countries, and to a less degree, of our own country. Then it was pointed out that this tendency means not merely a political movement, but also to some extent the growth of a moral ideal which gives a stronger life to the movement. The moral ideal at the basis of socialism is the ideal of society as an organized whole, whose interests are not identical with the mere aggregate of the individual interests. The conflict between this and the other, (the utilitarian ideal...